Effective Literary Analysis Strategies and Techniques
Discover essential strategies for analyzing literature, including exploring surface vs. depth, identifying patterns, examining opposites, considering context and genre, reflecting on social relevance, applying theoretical frameworks, and participating in critical conversations.
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STRATEGIES FOR READING LITERATURE
SURFACE/DEPTH Revealing deeper, less obvious meaning beneath a surface (literal) reading of the text.
PATTERNS Finding an image, word choice or other pattern that is repeated in surprising places throughout the text.
OPPOSITES Noting contradictions or opposites in the text and drawing conclusions that complicate the typical way we understand things.
CONTEXT Using information about the author s time period, culture, or other writings or about cultural references made in the text to discover or support an interpretation.
GENRE Using information about the history, cultural associations, or conventions of the text s genre to support or discover an interpretation.
SOCIAL RELEVANCE Using the text to understand the origins or nature of social problems in our own contemporary situation.
THEORETICAL Reading or interpreting the text through the lens of a theory, or concept external to the text, to see what this lens elucidates or highlights in the text.
JOINING THE CRITICAL CONVERSATION Identifying a point of disagreement or a gap in what others have said about the text and responding to or building on that previous discussion by adding something new.
