Monday, October 30, 2017

Possible Focuses for a Non-Fiction Reading Response

- Author's bias, and how you know
- Images/Imagery, especially repeated ones that become symbolic
-Whose perspective is included/Who is quoted and whose isn't, and why
-Author's tone
-Word choice and how it affects readers
-Relationships between claims and counterclaims
-Evidence the author uses to prove point
-Significance of small details
-Author's purpose
-Audience and why
-Unpack lines that use loaded words
-Analyze the emotional effect the author intends
-Author’s use of evidence
-Analyze the portrayals of people and objects/ topics in the text
-Whose perspective is included/excluded and why
-Main idea and supporting ideas
-Treatment of controversial issues
-Tone/attitude of the author
-Repetition and purpose
-Rhetorical devices
-Text to world connections/how the text fits into larger topics
-Figurative language and its effects

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