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Analysis (Harvina) - Coggle Diagram
Analysis (Harvina)
Style (How does the writer create effects? / convey meaning?) Stylistic techniques and devices
Imagery
Metaphor
Similie
Sensory imagery (visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile) - synaesthesia (compacting of different senses)
figurative language = descriptive langauge
Persuasive devices
Hyperbole
Different types of statements
Rhetorical question
Imperative command 'Do this now.' - instructional language
Exclamatory statements
Diction (word choice)
Vocabulary choice
Emotive language - words that try to tap into / connect with the emotions of the audience: "There are thousands of animals in the world that are at the mercy of our selfishness and disregard for kindness."
Sound
Sibilance - rep. of soft consonants
Alliteration ('alliterative' quality)
Plosive diction (repetition of p, d, b - explosive sounds!) e.g. "plodding beat of the drum"
Fricative diction (repetition of sounds f, t, t, z, k)
Onomatopoeia
Syntax (sentence structure)
Contrast between long, fluid and flowing, continuous syntax and detached, broken, disjointed and short syntax
Punctuation - caesura(e) (pause/break through hyphen/ellipsis) - usually creates suspense/tension through elongation of the sentence
Sentence length
'in contrast to' - think about the contrast in sentence lengths
mixture / varied syntax - what is the effect of that?
enjambment (French words) - one lines flows onto the next in a poem
can be shown like "one line / second line"
line one is enjambed onto the next
end-stopped (period/full-stop) at the end of the line
Personification
Content (What? - What do those effects achieve / what affect do these techniques have on the reader?)
Themes
Interior vs exterior; appearance vs reality
death; mortality - fragility of human life
nature / man vs nature
love (familial love (love between family) and romantic love)
Competition / hatred / family feud
Fate
Social hierarchy / status
Setting - creation of a certain type of atmosphere / mood
Personal interpretation