Author's purpose and craft

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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 extended metaphor achieves specific purposes;
Identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony;
Analyze how the author's use of language contributes to the mood, voice, and tone
Explain the purpose of rhetorical devices such as analogy and juxtaposition and of logical fallacies such as bandwagon appeals and circular reasoning.

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