menu for Individual Oral and Comparative Commentary

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Work & Author

Context

Characters

Themes

Motifs

Mood

· Dark

· light

Tone

· Coarse

· Harsh

· Refined

· Familiar

Structure

· Dialogue

· Monologue

· Description

· Poetic forms

· Short/long

Language

· simple

· sophisticated

· expansive

· technical

· colloquial

· scatological

Register

· formal

· academic

· informal

· Slang/jargon

Literary elements

· Imagery

· Sensory

· Figurative

· symbol

· metaphor

· simile

· Rhetoric

· logos

· ie. listing,

· pathos

· ie. loaded language

· ethos

· ie. duty, guilt

· Intertextuality

· Alliteration