- Tone/Mood (what words prove tone) -- connected w/ word choice
- tone: specifically, author's attitude towards subject
- mood: feeling evoked in the reader
- Word Choice (remember metaphor, symbolism, connotation, etc.) -- effect of words, as well
- Words that go beyond the literal to figurative language
- Simile
- Metaphor -- stronger than simile because of directness
- Hyperbole
- Symbolism -- something concrete which stands for something abstract
- Personification
- Imagery (five senses and any colors bringing story to life)
- Sound devices like onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance (repetition of middle vowel sounds), consonance
- Style (how does author display it?)
- Vague language
- Dialect
- Repetition
- Theme (overall theme supported by a specific paragraph)
In The Road:
- Papa and Boy are used to convey the unnecessary nature of naming in a ravaged world -- names are superfluous where survival only matters
- Everything is immediate -- lack of punctuation
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