Terms : Hide Images
| 5841371000 | Subject | general topic, ideas, & content in the text | 0 | |
| 5841373969 | Occasion | Where & when does/did the story take place? In what context? What is the rhetorical occasion (memory, description, observation, elegy, argument, critique etc.)? Larger occasion: broad issue that is the center of ideas and emotions Immediate occasion: the issue that catches the writer's attention and triggers a response | 1 | |
| 5841398564 | Audience | To whom is the text directed? Does the author identify an audience? What assumptions can you make about the intended audience? Individual or group? | 2 | |
| 5841409265 | Purpose | What is the speaker's reason for writing the text? Intended effect? In what ways does the speaker convey the message/purpose? What is the message/ how does the speaker want the audience to feel? | 3 | |
| 5841423581 | Speaker | Voice telling the story * Author and speaker not always the same thing- the speaker is the pov from which the story is told what assumptions can you make about the speaker (age, class, gender, emotional state, beliefs)? | 4 | |
| 5841441747 | Tone | What is the author's attitude towards the subject? How does the diction (choice of words) and syntax (sentence construction) point to the tone? | 5 | |
| 5841456067 | Organization | How is the text organized? How does the writer arrange the content? | 6 | |
| 5841464477 | Narrative Style | How does the writer tell the story? What does he/she conceal or reveal? Is the writing dramatic, like a play? Lots of dialogue or interior monologues? How does the writer treat time (chronological, lots of time jumps etc.)? | 7 | |
| 5841509653 | Evidence | What kind of diction dominates the text? What is the source of the images (nature, war, love etc.)? What do sound devices contribute to the work? | 8 |
