Stylistic Analysis
Content - what effect / meaning is created
Themes
Interpretation
Setting
Characters / our understanding of relationships and dynamics
Style (stylistic devices / literary techniques) - the writer's choices / what techniques are creating our interpretation
Imagery
Syntax (sentence structure / line structure / line length)
Enjambment (where one line of a poem flows into the next e.g. 'I call / That piece a wonder now'
End-stopped lines (lines that have a full stop at the end)
Sentence type
Rhetorical question e.g. 'How shall I say?'
Interrogative statement
Imperative command 'Do this' 'Don't do that'
Exclamatory statements
Diction
Alliteration 'polly pocket'
sibilance - alliteration on the 's' or soft 'c' sound e.g. 'silly sausages'
Vocabulary choice
sematic / lexical field: where you have lots of words in one section associated with a similar thing
Jargon/technical vocabulary
Metaphors
Similes
Personification
Oxymoron - bittersweet
onomatopoeia
Specific poetic devices
Rhythm / rhyme
Pacing / tempo
Syndetic vs asyndetic list e.g. 'the lion and the witch and the wardrobe' (using lots of conjunctions 'and' is a syndetic list) 'the lion, the witch, the wardrobe' (asyndetic - lacking in conjunctions / connectives)
conjunctions
comparative / superlative adjective
articles (a/an/the)
Sensory imagery
Voice / person
Personal pronouns
First person voice'I'
Second person 'you / third person is 'It was a..' 'He..'