Text analysis - close reading / some points to look for

- what contributes to theme(s) and structure;
- what hints at (or gets illuminated by) the context of the author’s work and time; 
 -subject of the enunciation; 
- point of view and effect upon the reader/addressee / alignment and allegiance of narrators, characters, and readers; 
- descriptive or lyric or argumentative, etc. manner, 
- language tropes / devices
* figures of speech (metaphor and metonymy)
* symbols / lexical relations pointing to semantic clusters
* innovation / surprising markers, or pattern traces within the author’s work
* collocations
* deictics
- allusion

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