Literature Analysis - A Mind Map of Ideas
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Purpose Reveal characters ? Literature Analysis Setting Atmosphere How When year day night Location Indoors Outdoors Genre Type fiction faction metafiction fantasy Subject Matter & Viewpoint Intent/aim didactic satirical SPEAKER/NARRATOR First Person Third person Omniscient Limited omniscient Free indirect discourse Objective Unreliable Stream of consciousness Who is being addressed ? Themes/symbolism Characters Use of direct speech Revelation Representation TONE tender angry comic mocking ironic Detached Lyrical Colloquial Language ORATORICAL DEVICES CRAPJUC Figures of sound Consonance Alliteration Assonance sibilance Dissonance onomatopoeia 6 Figures of sense Techniques Anaphora Zeugma Oxymoron etc SEMANTIC FIELDS REGISTER Degree of formality Diction language used lexis figurative dialect Latinate colloquial Structure Time Past Present Future Sentence length Components Narration Description Dialogue Plot Conflict Rising action Climax/anticlimax Falling action Reversal (peripeteia) Resolution Chronological/achronological episodic/subplot Rhyme scheme and metre Foot Iamb - to day Trochee - car ry Dactyl - Diff i cult Anapest - it is time Spondee - stop, thief Pyrrhic - up to Literature Analysis - 11/06/2009 - Roger Knight - [email protected]
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This Mind Map presents a a series of ideas on how to analyse any literary text be it prose, drama or poetry. It does not pretend to be exhaustive but does bring together a number of aspects of literary analysis that I have found useful.
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PurposeReveal characters ?
Literature Analysis
Setting
Atmosphere
How
When
year
day
night
LocationIndoors
Outdoors
GenreType
fiction
faction
metafiction
fantasy
Subject Matter & Viewpoint
Intent/aimdidactic
satirical
SPEAKER/NARRATOR
First Person
Third person
Omniscient
Limited omniscient
Free indirect discourse
Objective
Unreliable
Stream of consciousness
Who is being addressed ?
Themes/symbolism
CharactersUse of direct speech
Revelation
Representation
TONE
tender
angry
comic
mocking
ironic
Detached
Lyrical
Colloquial
Language
ORATORICAL DEVICES
CRAPJUC
Figures of sound
Consonance
Alliteration
Assonance
sibilance
Dissonance
onomatopoeia
6 Figures of sense
Techniques
Anaphora
Zeugma
Oxymoron
etc
SEMANTIC FIELDS
REGISTER
Degree of formality Diction
language usedlexis
figurative
dialect
Latinate
colloquial
Structure
Time
Past
Present
Future
Sentence length
Components
Narration
Description
Dialogue
Plot
Conflict
Rising action
Climax/anticlimax
Falling action
Reversal (peripeteia)
Resolution
Chronological/achronological episodic/subplot
Rhyme scheme and metre
Foot
Iamb to day
Trochee car ry
Dactyl Diff i cult
Anapest it is time
Spondee stop, thief
Pyrrhic up to
Literature Analysis 11/06/2009 Roger Knight [email protected]
