Figurative Language
Tone
Categorized Tone List
Syntax
Diction
Point of View
Organization
• Compare/Contrast
• Importance
• Chronology
• Cause-Effect
• Order of degree
• Classification
• Spatial
• Which organizational pattern does the author use?
• Why does the author choose to use that particular organizational strategy?
• Are there places where the author blends or alternates between different organizational patterns? If so,
what is the author trying to accomplish by mixing them in these ways?
• To what extent and in what ways do you think the author’s organizational strategy is effective? Why?
• Importance
• Chronology
• Cause-Effect
• Order of degree
• Classification
• Spatial
• Which organizational pattern does the author use?
• Why does the author choose to use that particular organizational strategy?
• Are there places where the author blends or alternates between different organizational patterns? If so,
what is the author trying to accomplish by mixing them in these ways?
• To what extent and in what ways do you think the author’s organizational strategy is effective? Why?
