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..'