Section H. RESPONSE TO LITERATURE ---     RESPONSE TO LITERATURE This "Response to Literature" section shows you how to write to literature.  The phrase "write to literature" means you are not just writing about something in the content of the literature (such as a person, a culture, or an event), but rather that you are responding to the literature using specific literary methods of response.  Some of these methods are relatively informal; others are semiformal or very formal.  They include such types of response as identifying the elements of literature, critically analyzing a work of literature, interpreting literature using a literary thesis, and reviewing literature.  Many of these methods of examining literature work for examining--and writing about--other art forms, as well.  For example, the chapter on the "Literary Review" also works for reviewing a play, an exhibition of paintings, a dance performance, et al.  Each art form has its own particular elements that are important to it; once you know those elements, you are speaking the "language" of the art form, and you can then analyze, interpret, and review by using those elements.  This section has six chapters, three of them with a sample paper in each: H. "Response to Literature" Chapters:     43. What Is "Writing to Lit"?     44. How To Read Literature     45. Analysis of Literary Elements (w/Sample Paper)     46. Critical or Interpretive Analysis     47. Interpretive Thesis (w/Sample Paper)     48. Literary Review (w/Sample Paper)     See also Ch. 53: Story Writing --- Return to top.