CRISIS LiD

Analysing extracts using the CRISIS LiD method - remember it's not just enough to identify the techniques - you must explain the effect of using them too.

Character - particular things revealed about certain characters (not just the main one)
Rhetorical - Rhetorical questions, repetition, sarcasm, quotation.
Imagery - This includes simple descriptive imagery, metaphor,simile, personification, symbolism (imagery that has particular significance or meaning in the text), motif (recurrent symbols or images that build up a meaning - Willy and the flute, Jim and the American Aircraft)
Speaker - Who is narrating the story, whose perspective are we seeing on the topic?
Irony - The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning
Sounds - rhyme, rhythm, onomatopoeia

Dialogue - what characters says and what they do
i - remember that you are reading this - how are you expected to react?
Language - Literally word choice