Character Analysis
The Quickest character Analysis strategy there is.
What is FAST
Passage/Selection.
What is another way to say story?
The author is trying to convince the reader to perform a task.
What is the definition of persuading in Author's Purpose?
The Message
What is another way to write the word theme?
What does the P stand for in PQRST?
Bob is a ____ person. He always hurts others, he never has helped a single person, and would always go to detention. Everyone hated Bob.
Bob is a mean/rude person.
How the reader feels from a story.
What is the mood?
When the author wants to make the reader enjoy themself.
What is the definition of entertaining in Author's Purpose?
Who can a theme apply to?
Preview the Questions
What does the Q stand for in PQRST?
Annele is quite formal/polite.
How the author feels from the story/when they write the story
What is the tone?
What is the definition of Informing in Author's Purpose?
No, the author sometimes states it but sometimes makes the reader infer.
Does the author always state the theme in the story?
Read the story
What does the R stand for in PQRST?
The A in steal.
What is Action to other characters in S.T.E.A.L.?
The universal message that someone from the story usually learns. Similar to the moral.
What is the theme?
When the author is trying to convey the theme, or message.
What is the definition of teaching in Author's Purpose?
The protagonist or antagonist
(In the passage) Who will the theme usually apply to?
What is a strategy used for Previewing the story?
The S in FAST.
What the character says goes in...
When the author uses facts to convince the reader about something.
What is Logos?
When the author is trying to demonstrate or communicate something (usually in poems).
What is the definition of expressing in Author's Purpose?
Bob was mean but when Jim came to the school, he was super scared. Jim made him realize that he should've treated others nicely.
What lesson did Bob learn?
SWBST
What is a strategy used to summarize a story?