List of items that you need to analyze a text:
Theme: An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
Topic: Reflects the overall idea of the text.
Main Idea: Reflects the specific idea of the text.
Source: Where it comes from.
Target Audience: Readers for this text.
Author's Purpose:
-Inform: When an author gives facts or true information.
-Persuade: When an author writes to try to get you to do something.
-Entertain: When an author writes stories that are fiction.
Genre: A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
-Fiction Genres: Drama, Poetry, Fantasy, Humor, Fable, Science Fiction, etc
-Non-Fiction Genres: Essays, Biography, Speech, Autobiography.
Tone: The attitude of the writer.
Register: The way the text is written, Formal, or Informal.
Jargon: It is the vocabulary peculiar to a particular profession or group.
Argot: It is a specialized vocabulary peculiar to a class or group., especially one devised for private communication.
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