Author's purpose and craft

The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

Explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

Analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

Analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

Describe how the author's use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes;

Identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose;

Analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood and voice

Explain the differences between rhetorical devices and logical fallacies.