Analysis 101
Definition of Purpose
What is "an intention for the text"?
Definition of Diction
Definition of Voice
Definition of Genre
Definition of Form
What is "the visual layout of a text"?
Definition of Structure
What is "the development of the content of a text"?
Definition of Figurative Language
What is "words or phrases which do not refer to the literal meaning"?
Example of Simile
Definition of Audience
What is "intended reader"?
Definition of Lexicon
Definition of 1st Person Narrative
Definition of Genre Classification
Definition of Lexical Relationship
What is "play on words"?
Difference between Structure and Form
What is "form is physical appearance of a text, structure is content-based"?
Definition of Implied Metaphor
Example of Onomatopoeia
Definition of Central Idea
What is "the dominant impression or universal truth in the text" ("the main idea")?
Definition of Poetic Diction
Definition of 3rd Person Omniscient
4 Main Types of Literary Genres
Definition of Tricolon
What is "a pattern of repetition in a set of 3"?
Definition of "Cause and Effect"
What is "providing explanations or reasons for phenomena"?
Definition of Hyperbole
Example of Aggrieved Tone
(telling your parents about your day)
Definition of Context
Definition of Pedantic Diction
Definition of Subjective POV
Example of Drama
Definition of Ellipsis
What is "the omission from speech or writing of a word that could be understood by contextual clues"?
Definition of "Problem and Solution"
What is "identifying problems and posing solutions"?
Definition of Idiom
Example of Personification
Definition of Cohesion
What is "linking words into phrases, sentences, paragraphs and then into a whole text"?
Definition of Colloquial Diction
Example of 3rd Person Limited
Example of Nonfiction
Definition of Anaphora
What is "repetition of a phrase or word at the beginning of a sentence"?
Definition of "Compare and Contrast"
What is "discussing two ideas, events, or phenomena, showing how they are different and how they are the same"?
Definition of Allusion
Example of a Benevolent Tone