SAT lit

• Theological and scientific arguments
• Didactic reasoning
• Narrators frame stories as real accounts

• Nonfiction: collecting and analyzing data to deduce argumentative claims
• Fiction: conventions to represent real experiences of characters
• Reflection of social reform for race, class, gender

• The World Wars, global Depression
• Scientific and technological change
• Social mobility

• Personal narrative
• Reflects own experience
• Not telling the truth, misunderstanding, ignoring of events

• Narrator’s perspective separate from character
• More objective

• You pronoun
• Relationship between reader and events

• Uses we
• Group of narrators
• Evokes a community sharing experiences
• Focus on events of recounts instead of subjective reactions to them

• Setting and plot
• Form of narrative (dialogue heavy, number of characters, specific settings or social conditions)
• Suggestions of genre
• Allegorical instances

• How the passage conveys
• Changes in tone
• Figurative language
• Imagery
• Dialogue formality
• Diction and syntax
• Reframing
• Argumentation

• Patterns of style and rhythm including organization into verses and lines
• Rhyme scheme
• Meter
• Diction and syntax

• Themes of religion, mythology, romantic love, fleeting nature of beauty
• Definite formal structures and rhyme schemes

• Balance between intellect and emotion, nature and industry
• Later periods - social reform movements of race, class, gender

• World wars, Depression, scientifically and technological change
• Poems conforming to traditional structures do so to comment on political or thematic implications of those conventions

• Consider title
• Elegies and love poems often deal with real people
• Does or paeans address personified abstractions or parts of the self
• Apostrophes - addresses to a new figure

• Relies on figurative language and allusion
• Type of poem, rhyme scheme, form and tone analysis
• Uniformity and steadiness of meter

• Effect of sonic features
• Complications through imagery, paradoxes or irony

Stage directions

Reworks mythological or historical events or relationships

• Balance between intellect and emotion, nature and industry
• Social reform of class, gender, race

• The World Wars, global Depression
• Scientific and technological change
• Social mobility

• Majorly speech or action
• Dialogue
• Named characters
• Character relationships are more complex - the unsaid

• Setting and plot
• Form of the dialogue
• Sense of the genre

• Monologues common - understanding of motivations and priorities
• Asides common - conniving
• Interruptions - egocenctric

placement of person, event or object in a historical or chronological time to which it does not belong

comparison used to explain or clarify something

• short narrative about a interesting event
• usually presented as if interesting in isolation or as a subjective description

address to a person who is usually absent

formal, informal, colloquial or slang

forceful expression giving importance to a mentioned person, place or object

• a story with a moral
• usually involves animals as main chs

satire bordering on the absurd

expression of meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning

expression of joyful praise

story told to convey a moral message or lesson

portrays lives of people in the country

something that evokes a feeling of pity or sympathy

• speech addressed to the audience 
• delivered when only one actor is on stage
• expounding upon predicament or state