Questioning
Summarize
What is to restate the main points in a brief manner
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses to help create a mental picture.
What is imagery?
Central Idea
What is the most important point the author tries to make
Circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more than the characters
What is dramatic irony?
Evidence
What is something that serves to illustrate or to prove
The central message or universal truth about life revealed through a literary work
What is theme?
The overall emotion created by a work of literature
What is mood?
Tone
What is the attitude of the author towards the subject or audience.
The feelings or emotions associated with words beyond their literal meaning
What is connotation?
Analyze
What is to examine in detail the parts or elements in order to reveal and interpret
The opposition or struggle between characters or forces in a literary work that spurs on the plot/action of the story.
What is conflict?
A question asked solely to pose an idea
What is rhetorical question?
Author's purpose
What is the author’s reason and/or goal for writing
A reference to something famous or well known to enhance the meaning of an idea
What is an allusion?
Infer
What is to arrive at a conclusion after analyzing the facts
A narrator whose version of events cannot be trusted and seem distorted, faulty, or biased.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The author’s choice of words to create meaning, tone, and mood.
What is diction?
Structure
The repetition of words or phrases that have a similar grammatical structure
What is parallel structure?
Justify
What is to defend or prove using examples as right or reasonable
A character’s reason for action or behaving in a certain manner.
What is motivation?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
What is syntax?
An appeal based on logic or reason
What is logos?
A story or brief episode told by the writer or character to illustrate a point
What is an anecdote?