CHECKLIST:   Name of Examinee: _______________Checker: _____________

 

Passage on _________________________

 

YOU SHOULD HAVE BETWEEN 8--10 PARAGRAPHS!

 

1.   Author’s purpose   ___________________

2.   Situate the passage within the larger work   ________________

3.   Tone is _____________. HOW DO YOU KNOW?

4.   Thesis Statement  ______________

5.   Diction…denotation/connotation? ____________

6.   Give its theme of the passage…________________

7.   Are there any literary devices? If so, what effect do they have on the meaning of the work? ____________________________

a)   Pun/puns  ________

b)   Metaphor ______________

c)   Simile __________

d)   Metonymy/synecdoche ________________

e)   Allusion/allusions ______________________

f)    Hyperbole/overstatement   ____________________

g)   Understatement __________________________

h)   Anastrophe __________________________

i)     Anaphora ___________________________

j)    Irony ______________________________

k)   Imagery _________________________

l)     Apostrophe _______________________

m) Personification ____________________

n)   Paradox _________________________

o)   Allegory _________________________

p)   Symbol/symbols _____________________________