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Work & Author

Context

Characters

Themes

Motifs

Mood

·       Dark

·       light

Tone

· Coarse

· Harsh

· Refined

· Familiar

Structure

·       Dialogue

·       Monologue

·       Description

·       Poetic forms

·       Short/long

Language/Diction

·       simple

·       sophisticated

·       expansive

·       technical

·       colloquial

·       scatological

Syntax


Register

·       formal

·       academic

·       informal

·       Slang/jargon

Literary elements

·       Imagery

·       Sensory

·       Figurative

·       symbol

·       metaphor

·       simile

·       Rhetoric

·       logos

·       ie. listing,

·       pathos

·       ie. loaded language

·       ethos

·       ie. duty, guilt

·       


Allusion (classical, Biblical)
Intertextuality
Allegory

·       Alliteration