For the close reading questions on both exams, use your knowledge of how style and content work to analyze the passage or poem.

Diction

Tone

Figurative Language

Allusion

Listing

Irony

Syntax

(“Don’t the French Always Like It Sweaty”)

Speaker

Occasion

Audience

Purpose

Subject

Tone

(S.O.A.P.S.Tone)

These almost always work!