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Literary analysis overview

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Literary Analysis - Overview

1. Preliminary Investigation
• Biography of the Author
• Context of Creation and Publication
• Text Comprehension and Vocabulary
• List of Characters, List of Locations, and List of Events (Story, Timeline)

2. Reading
• Central questions: Why did the author make the decisions they made in the creation of the text? What do they want to represent, achieve, or convey as an idea or message?
• Look for Uniqueness, Deviation from the Normal, and Symbolism.

3. Terminology

a) Narrative Perspective
• Perspective: 1st (Character Voice, Reliability), 2nd, or 3rd (Omniscient, Subjective, Objective)
• Single or Multiple Narrators
• (Non)Participant
• Stream of Consciousness

b) Setting
• Static or Dynamic
• General Atmosphere (Mood)
• Natural World (Pathetic Fallacy), Cultural/Historical Reference, Public or Private
• Symbolism

c) Plot
• Freytag's Pyramid:
 – Exposition
 – Conflict (Incident)
 – Rising Action
 – Climax
 – Falling Action
 – Resolution (Denouement)
• Plot Devices (see list)

d) Character
• Function:
 – Protagonist
 – Antagonist
 – Deuteragonist
 – Tritagonist
 – Love interest
 – Confidant
 – Foil Character
• Fictional or Real, Round or Flat, Static or Dynamic
• Character Development (Character Arc, Bildungsroman, Literary Fiction, Character-Driven)

e) Theme
• Meaning of the Title
• Central Ideas and Concepts, Implicit Message
• Further Implications

f) Style
• Diction, Text Composition, Mood, Tone, Voice
• Figures of Speech (see list)

3. Plot Devices

  1. Anti-climax

  2. Backstory

  3. Cliffhanger

  4. Deus ex machina

  5. Flashback

  6. Flashforward (prolepsis)

  7. Foreshadowing (Chekhov’s gun principle)

  8. Frame narrative, story within a story

  9. Love triangle

  10. MacGuffin

  11. Motif, Leitmotif (vs. Symbol)

  12. Narrative hook

  13. In medias res

  14. Plot twist

  15. Poetic justice

  16. Red herring

  17. Self-fulfilling prophecy

  18. Shoulder angel and devil

4. Figures of Speech

  1. Alliteration

  2. Allusion

  3. Anachronism

  4. Analogy

  5. Anaphora

  6. Anastrophe

  7. Antithesis

  8. Apostrophe

  9. Cliché

  10. Climax and Anti-Climax

  11. Ellipsis

  12. Epistrophe

  13. Euphemism

  14. Hyperbole

  15. Imagery

  16. Irony

  17. Litotes

  18. Metaphor

  19. Metonymy

  20. Neologism

  21. Onomatopoeia

  22. Oxymoron

  23. Paradox

  24. Parallelism

  25. Periphrasis

  26. Personification

  27. Pun

  28. Rhetorical Question

  29. Sarcasm/Black Humour

  30. Simile

  31. Synecdoche

  32. Synaesthesia

  33. Understatement

  34. Zeugma

5. Output Structure

  1. Introduction (Hook, Claim or Thesis Statement)

  2. Optional: Short Summary (Topic)

  3. Analysis (Arguments, Evidence from Primary and Secondary Sources)

  4. Main Theme and Sub-Themes

  5. Conclusion

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