Question

The six points on the star in the textbook that represent the ways in which literature might be analyzed are

Answer 1

Fiction

Reading

• Slow down and let the world of the text wash over you. Take the text in, and allow it envelop your psyche. Turn off all of your distractions and engage the work of literature on its own terms.
• If something strikes you as significant and meaningful, make a note of it. Don't just highlight; actively take notes: pose questions, compose tentative theories, offer preliminary interpretations in the margins. Your annotations, if you're truly reading the work and reading it well, should enter into a dialogue with the text, with the world view of the work of literature, if not the mind of the author.
• Look for the formal elements of literature such as character, setting, point of view, tone (see below), but don't get bogged down by technique and artifice. Engage the primary conflicts, the meat of the content, to which the form points.
• Review and/or reread. Think about how you feel toward the work, about how the work makes you feel. Be able to articulate your primary response, your gut level reaction, to the work. Then, begin to transform that emotional response into a position regarding the work's themes. Find important passages which prove your position.

Analyzing

Answer 2

excellent literature