Literary Interpretation

• Exploring character, setting, structure, perspective,
  theme, and figurative language
• Evaluating a literary work by making and explaining
  judgments about its artistry
• Exploring a work’s underlying social and cultural
  values through analysis, interpretation, and
  argument
• Focusing on specific words and details to build a
  literary interpretation

Rhetorical Analysis and Persuasive Argument

• Evaluating sources of information
• Reading closely, analyzing and interpreting a piece
  of writing
• Gathering evidence from multiple sources
• Evaluating the persuasive effects and rhetorical
  choices made by a writer or speaker
• Understanding the persuasive effects of visual texts,
  e.g., advertising, documentaries, political ads and/or
  cartoons

Expository, analytical, and argumentative essays
analyzing and interpreting literary works from different
historical periods and various cultures

• Poetry analysis
• Prose fiction analysis (close reading of an extract of
  prose fiction)
• Literary argument on a novel or work of drama

Persuasive writing about contemporary issues and
analytical writing examining a writer’s rhetorical
techniques
 

• Synthesis (writing evidence-based arguments)
• Rhetorical analysis (analyzing and evaluating a
  writer’s persuasive techniques)
• Persuasive argument (writing arguments based on
  your own experience and evidence)