Here are some guiding questions to help you find important excerpts for use with Double- and Triple-Entry Journals:
Make sure your double-entry journals do this: Excerpt > Plot/Character > Big Idea/Theme > Novel's Outcome
Guiding questions about text to self reactions and analysis:
Guiding questions about reactions and analysis, as they relate to rhetorical appeals:
Sentence frames related to text to self reactions and analysis:
Sentence frames related to, as they relate to rhetorical appeals:
Feel free to use any or none of these sentence frames to write your DEJs and TEJs for literary analysis. Eventually, these will come to you without your even thinking about them! :-)
In this excerpt from (title of piece here), (character) is speaking to (character)....
^This frame looks like this in a real analysis:
In this excerpt from The Hunger Games, Katniss is speaking to Peeta...
The reader is better able to understand (important idea from literary piece here) because of (author)'s use of (rhetorical appeal here).
^This frame looks like this in a real analysis:
The reader is better able to understand Katniss's less than adequate ability to charm the audience from the Capital because of Suzanne Collins's use of diction.
You should then go on to describe how Collins's diction helps the reader understand the story better. Such as...
The specific word from Collins's diction that is powerful in helping the reader to understand Katniss's prickly personality is when she uses the word "Remember, . . ." when Katniss begins addressing Peeta. By saying this, Katniss makes it clear that she doesn't respect his intelligence.