Tips for analyzing a literary text

Tips for analyzing a literary text

The difficulties in reading comprehension it is one of the deficiencies that can have negative consequences on learning. Gain experience in analyzing a literary text it takes practice. One of the most important requirements to understand an article is to read it calmly.

Also, although it is advisable to search for some words in dictionary To know its meaning, it is also advisable to try to deduce the meaning of a concept from the context in which it is located. It is convenient to analyze the historical context to which a literary text belongs, since if it is part of a certain cultural current, it is convenient to put both planes in relation.

To analyze a literary text it is also very important that as a reader you deepen the creative style of the Author to relate this literary text that belongs to a specific work with other works of the writer. To deepen the analysis of a literary text you must also answer this question: What is the main theme of the article and what main ideas support them?

Analyze the structure of the text, the language style, attends not only to what the author says but also to how he says it. Once you have done a first general reading of the text, carry out subsequent re-readings, make annotations in the article to underline main ideas and salient terms. It is positive that you try to go beyond the literality of the words to understand the meaning of metaphors and symbols present in the text.


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