Which of these does not describe a good literary analysis?
a. a search for the meaning behind a story
b. a look at the role the main character in a novel plays
c. a discussion of the symbolism used in a poem
d. a detailed summary of the plot of a short story

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings