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    Guiding Questions for Analyzing Fiction: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. What does the character do? what does the character want? what do other characters think and say about the character? what is the (abstract) subject of the story (desire, escape, redemption, loss)? what word choices convey the author's attitude? How does the setting convey the tone?

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    GuidingQuestionsforAnalyzingFiction

    GuidingquestionsforAnalyzingCharacter:
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    Whatdoesthecharacterdo?
    Whatdoesthecharactersay?
    Whatdoesthecharacterthink?
    Whatdoesthecharacterwant?
    Whatisthecharactersproblem?
    Whatdoothercharacterssayanddotothecharacter?
    Whatdoothercharactersthinkandsayaboutthecharacter?

    GuidingQuestionsforAnalyzingPointofView

    Whoistellingthestory?
    Whosestoryisit?
    Whatisthenarratorsroleinstory?
    Whatpronounsareusedinthestory?
    Whosethoughts/feelingsdoweknow?

    GuidingQuestionsforAnalyzingSetting:
    1. Isthesettinggeneral(notstatedorimplied)orspecific(acertaintime,aspecificlocation)?
    2. Whatelementsofthesettingareemphasizedanddescribed?(interiororexteriorspaces,
    weather,politics,emotionalbackground,socialinformation)
    3. Whatmoodissetviatheelementsofsetting?
    4. Whatabstractconceptsmightelementsofsetting(universalsymbols)representorsymbolize?
    5. Howdoesthesettingaffectthecharacters?Areelementsofthesettingassociatedwith
    particularcharacters?
    6. Areelementsofthesettingpartoftheconflict?
    7. Howdoesthesettingaffecttheplot?

    GuidingQuestionsforAnalyzingTone:
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    Whatisthe(abstract)subjectofthestory(desire,escape,redemption,loss)?
    Whatistheauthorsattitudetowardthesubject?
    Whatwordchoices(diction)conveytheauthorsattitude?
    Whatimageryconveystheauthorsattitude?
    Howdoesthesettingconveythetone?

    GuidingQuestionsforAnalyzingConflict:
    1. Whatisthemaincharactertryingtoovercome(somethinginsidehim/herself,anothercharacter,
    society,ortheenvironment)?

    2. Istheproblememotional(basedonfeelingslikeabandonment,fear,grief),physical(aneedto
    gosomewhere,afistfight,aclimbupamountain)orethical(aquestionofrightorwrong,a
    challengeofbeliefs)
    3. Whatarethetwosidesoftheconflictconcretely(character1vs.character2,character1vs.the
    mountain,character1sdecisiontostayorgo)?
    4. Identifywhatthetwosidesrepresentorsymbolizeontheabstractlevel(couragevs.cowardice,
    lovewithpainvs.beingalonewithnopain?
    5. Whichconflictsarethemostimportanttothetheme?

    GuidingQuestionsforAnalyzingPlot:
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    Whatisrevealedintheexposition?Howdoesthestorystart?
    Whatarethemaincomplications?
    Howarethecomplicationsconnected?
    Whatistheclimax?
    Howmuchoftheconflictisresolved?
    Whatisrevealedinthefallingactionanddenouement?
    Howmanyplotthreadsarethere?
    Howdotheyconverge?Orrunparallel?
    Howdoesthestoryend?

    GuidingQuestionsforAnalyzingTheme:
    1. Whatarethesubjectsofthestory?
    2. Whatisthelessontheauthoristeachingortheobservationtheauthorismakingaboutthe
    subject?

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