english lang review

Form

(Try to cover all of these)

• What does it look like on the page?

• Genre Layout (use of title, headings, sections,
  Stanzas, rhyme scheme, etc.)

• Genre (the type/ category of writing)

• Author's Purpose

• Audience

• Register (formal/ informal, diction,
  Narrative form like 1st, 2nd, 3rt etc.)

Structure

(Cover what's relevant or unique)

• Beginning

• Development

• Sentence lengths

• Sentence features

• Anaphora (reuse of a starting word/ phrase)

• Juxtaposition (dissimilar ideas close together)

• Ellipses (...)

• Dialogue (spoken words between characters)

• Transitions

• •

• Paragraph lengths

• Paragraph features

Language

(Cover what's relevant or unique)

Diction (word choice)

Dialects (regional language/ vernacular considerations involving

Idioms, unique phrasing, pronunciation, etc.)

Literal language connotation vs. denotation)

• Ione author's revealed attitude towards the subject

• Mood (the feeling the piece creates in the reader)

• Theme (life lesson or deeper point)

• Setting (time, place, weather)

• Characterization (direct, indirect, dynamic, static)

• Literary conflict (man vs_)

• Rhetoric (leadership and persuasion)

• Persuasive Techniques (logos, pathos, ethos

• Narrative form (1st, 2nd, 3rd, omniscient)

• Inclusive language (uses "we" to make the reader or listener feel included)

• Figurative language
  → Metaphor or Simile
  → Personification (human qualities
  to a thing)

→ Symbolism (object with a deeper meaning)

→ Description (verbs, adjectives,

adverbs)

→ Voice (unique attributes of a given author's style)

→ Allusions (references to famous

ideas or people)

→ Assonance (recurring vowel

sounds)

→ Inference (we figure it out)

→ Emotive language (causes

emotion)