A well-developed analysis paragraph outline:

1. Topic sentence (A clear and direct claim that supports your

thesis statement)
2. Point #1 (Your first point that supports your topic sentence)
3. An example from the text that supports Point #1
4. An explanation as to how the example supports Point #1
5. Point #2 (Your second point that supports your topic sentence)
6. An example from the text that supports Point #2
7. An explanation as to how the example supports Point #2
8. Point #3
9. An example
10.
An explanation
11.
Concluding sentence (A statement that reflects on your
claim in the topic sentence. It does not simply repeat what
youve already said in the topic sentence)
Example:
Iago uses vile, sexual and animalistic imagery to torture
Othello1. Though he tries to fight Iagos suggestions about his wife,
demanding proof that her unfaithfulness is true, logic or reason left
Othello once Iago asks if he would like to behold her topped2.
Perhaps Othello had already thought of Desdemona having sex with
Cassio, but by saying it out loud, Iago is able to pour salt on the
wound3. Iago continues, suggesting Othellos wife and her lover are
prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, as salt as wolves in pride.4
Once Iago forces the idea of Desdemona and Cassio together into
Othellos mind, he adds images of animals in heat, mixing an
already painful image with a grotesque one. With this, Desdemona
is not the loving, caring and innocent lady Othello knows her to be.
She is a disgusting animal, interested only in satisfying her body5. It
is clear Othello is tortured by these images because he can hardly
speak, able only to shout exclamations of pain6 such as Death and
damnation! O! and O monstrous, monstrous!7 Cleary Othellos
thoughts are dark, and his Hellish outcries are similar to what any
tortured man may cry out during pain.8 These are tortuous images
Othello is being forced to see, and Iago knows they will not go away.
Othello will go mad trying to escape them9.
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Topic sentence
Point #1 and example
Explanation
Point #2 and example

5Explanation
6 Point #3
7 Example
8 Explanation
9 Concluding sentence