Analyzing Text: Literature
Tension & uncertainty about will happen next
What is Suspense?
The art of examining and evaluating types of media
What is Media Analysis?
To retell the main points of a text/Main idea.
What is Summarize?
Uses Rules of dialogue, Comma usage and Dashes.
What is Revising and Editing?
For finding synonyms and antonyms for particular words.
Uses pronouns I, Me, My, We, Our.
What is 1st person Point of View?
The words & tone created by the author.
What is Authors Style?
Why the author wrote something.
What is Authors Purpose?
Word with same/similar meaning.
What is a Synonym?
Word with opposite meaning.
What is a Antonym?
Hints at what will come later
What is Foreshadowing?
How you find the meaning of a word in a sentence using context clues.
What is Vocab in Context?
It is used for dramatic effect to make a point. A question that doesn’t require an answer.
What is a Rhetorical question?
The subject receives an action. Object + Action + Subject.
What is Passive Voice?
Means action or process, Quality or state or Amount or degree
What is -ance?
A character who is isolated from society as a result of being different.
What is a Traditional Outsider Character?
How does the author feel about the topic?
What is Viewpoint?
The author’s main argument/point.
What is Authors Argument?
Means from, Adhering to or following or A person who specializes or is an expert in.
What is -ian?
Includes a form of be (was, am, are, been, is, were).
What is Passive Voice?
Uses pronouns She, His, It, Hers, He.
What is 3rd person Point of View?
The opposing/opposite side of the author’s argument
What is Counterargument?
The authors ________ is often the main idea of the story.
What is Argument?
The subject and verb in a sentence or clause must agree in number. If subject is singular, the verb is singular and If the subject is plural, the verb is plural.
What is Subject Verb Agreement?
Is used to express a recommendation, a requirement, a wish or hypothetical situation, or a condition that is contrary to fact. Examples: No ‘s’ on the verb, Be not Is or Are and Were not was.
What is Subjunctive Mood?