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• how a character speaks, their tone, dialect, manner, usage of certain phrases that reveal personality/background

  speech
• character's internal motivations, fears, desires, beliefs that shape their actions

  thoughts
• how a character impact other characters or the plot via consequences and whatnot with actions and words

  effects
• what does the character do throughout the piece?

  actions
• physical attributes, appearances, details

  looks
• greek word that means action?

  drama
• story enacted on stage for a live audience

  drama
• 3 major areas of drama

  literary, technical, performance elements
• plot (literary)

  beginning > middle > denouement
• main idea or lesson to be learned

  theme
• acting, character motivation, character analysis, empathy

  performance elements
• plot, theme, characters, dialogue, music/rythym, spectacle

  literary elements
• use of face, body, and voice to portray a character

  acting
• reason for a character's behavior

  character motivation
• examining how elements of a drama are used

  character analysis
• capacity to relate to the feelings of another

  empathy
• when does faulty parallelism occur?


  when a writer fails to use equal grammatical structures to express related ideas. non-parallel
• how to correct faulty parallelism?


  changing the words into the same structure, all past, all present, all same
• provides general guidelines to help analyze, deconstruct, a piece of literature

  literary criticism
• 7 literary criticisms

  formalistic, historical, biographic, marxist, feminist, deconstruction, psychological
• emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning and how its created

  formalist criticism
• 2 major principles of formalisms


  a literary text exists independent of any particular reader, staying timeless and universal
• this approach focuses on form, analyzes symbols, images, and how one parts of the work relates to other parts and the whole

  formalistic approach
• challenges structuralist assumptions that a texts meaning can be discovered through examination, asks a new set of questions

  deconstructionism
• argues that we must take an authors life into account when we study a text

  biographical criticism
• concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in literary text

  feminist criticism
• emphasizes the economic and social conditions, concerned with role of power, politics, and money

  marxist approach
• views a text as a revelation of the authors mind and personality

  psychological approach
• flexible way of organizing info


  non linear organization
• 4 non linear organization methods

  diagrams and maps, charts (pie, flow), graphs (line, bar), tables
• visual tool that shows how facts, terms, ideas are related in learning

  diagrams and maps
• visual representation of data or info, shows trends, comparisons, and relationships

  charts, pie/flow
• visual data representation using points connected with lines or curves to show trends and patterns

  graph (line, bar)
• structured arrangement of data in rows and columns, tabular form

  table
• dangling modifier


  modifies nothing, or the wrong subject
• misplaced modifier


  modifier in the wrong place, changes the sentence's meaning