HOW TO ANALYSE A TEXT:
1. Contextualization: Period (+ context) Which period does the
author and text belong to?
2. Genre: Recognise the genres/ subgenres used by a particular author, get
to know the techniques which are specific to it. How has that genre developed
through different historic periods?
3. Themes: Which universal themes are used? How are the themes dealt with
by the author?
4. Mode of discourse: type of narrator and point of view: (first-person
narrator, third-person narrator, omniscient narrator, obtrusive narrator, fallible
narrator)
5. Literary and stylistic techniques: style: Style in literature is
the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses
words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative
language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish
mood, images, and meaning in the text. Style describes how the
author describes events, objects, and ideas.
OTHER ELEMENTS OF LITERARY STYLE
PLOT
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
TONE
IMAGERY
SYMBOLS
SETTING
FORM
FIGURES OF SPEECH
REGISTER+ VOCAB (SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND SEMANTIC FIELDS)