Analyzing Text

Why might an author use a hybrid text structure?

• To blend multiple narrative elements

• To clarify a single viewpoint

• To create confusion

• To simplify complex themes

Which feature is most likely used in a non-linear narrative?

• Logical order of events

• Repeated settings

• Flashbacks and time jumps

• A single consistent theme

What effect can structural shifts have on a reader?

• Cause confusion

• Create deeper engagement

• Simplify the main idea

• Introduce new characters

Author's Craft includes...

• The skill of the author

• The techniques the author uses

• The specific language the author uses

• The rhetorical devices the author uses

• All of the above

What are Text Features?

• The color and font of the main body of the text

• Short excerpts from longer texts

• Parts of a text that are not part of the main body of written text

• The exact words the author uses

What is Tone?

• How the text makes you feel reading it

• How you feel about the subject of the text

• How the audience interacts with the text

• The author's attitude towards their subject

What does Word Choice refer to?

• An educational game

• The specific words, phrases, and expressions that an author or speaker uses

• The words you use to respond to a text

• Choices that we make as we talk and write that have nothing to do with words

How are Subject and Theme related to each other?

• The Subject is what the author is saying about the Theme

• They are both the same thing

• They are completely unrelated

• The Theme is what the author is saying about the Subject

Which of these are necessary for you to analyze something?

• Evidence to support your arguments/claims

• A tool or method (such as annotation) to help you understand the information yourself

• A summary of the information you are analyzing

• An argument or explanation for what the information actually means

• All of the above

Which text structure tells how things are alike and different?

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Chronological Order/Sequence

• Description

• Compare and Contrast