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Analyzing the author’s style through your individual papers…

Analyzing the author’s style through your individual papers…. You’re starting with a close reading of the essay(s) Annotations/dialectical journals Developing an understanding of a text based first on the words themselves and then on the larger ideas those words suggest. As you write:

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Analyzing the author’s style through your individual papers…

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  1. Analyzing the author’s style through your individual papers… • You’re starting with a close reading of the essay(s) • Annotations/dialectical journals • Developing an understanding of a text based first on the words themselves and then on the larger ideas those words suggest. • As you write: • Larger meaning supported by the small details—the language itself—and bolstering your interpretation.

  2. Compare a close reading to… • Your daily responses to others and various situations. • Instinctively respond to the context and purpose of our interactions • Aware of the rhetorical triangle: subject, speaker and audience. You also consider…

  3. Style! • Contributes to the meaning, purpose, and effect of the text. • In an interaction: body language, gestures, tone of voice, volume, syntax, colloquialisms, vocab. • Textual understanding is enhanced by examining the following: • Tone • Sentence structure • Vocabulary

  4. Analyzing for style, or tropes and schemes • Diction: Choice of words • Trope: Artful/purposeful diction • Examples of a trope? Metaphor, a simile, personification, hyperbole. • Syntax: The arrangement of words • Scheme: Artful/purposeful syntax • Examples of a scheme? Parallelisms, juxtapositions, and antitheses.

  5. Questions to ask when analyzing diction • Which of the important words in the passage (verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs) are general and abstract? Which are specific and concrete? • Are the important words formal, informal, colloquial, or slang? • Are some words nonliteral or figurative, creating figures of speech such as metaphors?

  6. Questions you might ask when analyzing syntax • What is the order of the parts of the sentence? Is it the usual (subject-verb-object), or is it inverted? • Which part of speech is more prominent—nouns or verbs? • What are the sentences like? Are they periodic or cumulative? • How does the sentence connect its words, phrases, and clauses?

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