How To Analyze Literature

3 Things I Learned:

• In order to be a good reader, you must focus on one single literary element at a time and then realize they are never done, that it's never perfect, and to be successful you must put in the time and exit out of your comfort zone.
• Syntax occurs when the writers slow us down with complex or long sentences or speeds us up with short, simple ones. It is based on the Greek word that means "arrangement." In poetry, word order is extremely significant.
• Sometimes an object or setting can be considered a character, and if this happens any analysis must tie the characters back to "a theme about humanity."

2 Questions I Still Have:

• How does diction help us understand the speaker's attitude?
• What's the significance in when novelists and other writers use their own names for a narrator?

A Skill:
 I feel comfortable in my overall knowledge of figurative language. It's something that my elementary and middle school drilled in our brains, and when I read over "How to Analyze Literature," all of the content sounded familiar. I feel comfortable with spotting out figurative language and connecting it to a theme.