Subject - What is the text about?
Occasion - What could have caused the author to write this text?
Audience – Who is the text written for? Who is supposed to learn something from the purpose of the text?
Purpose – What is the message of the text? What does the writer want to convince the reader to believe or persuade the reader to do?
Speaker – Who is the storyteller in the text? (In fiction, this is almost never the author)
Tone: How does the author feel about the text/subject? If the writer were reading the piece aloud, what tone of voice would she/he use?
Diction - What types of words does the author use?
Imagery - What words does the author use that appeal to the five senses?
Detail – What does the author bother to describe in detail? What details does the author leave out?
Syntax – What type of sentence structures does the author use? Punctuation? Word order? Grammar?
Figurative Language – What literary devices does the author use that are not meant to be taken literally?
Organization: How is the text organized?
Point of View – From what angle is the story told? (Where is the camera?)