Annotations Summary: Fiction
CONTENT: What is happening in this part of the story?
Who is telling the story? (narrator ≠ author)
Who are the key characters here, and what are they doing, thinking, feeling, and/or saying?
What are the main problems or tensions emerging or intensifying here?
What are the key ideas or concerns? How do they relate to one another?
What changes in this section (knowledge, mood, power, understanding, feeling, etc)?
FORM: How is this part of the story told?
What formal choices stand out here?
Your reflections or notes on the use of these formal features:
Your reflections or notes on how these formal features shape, complicate, or resist
the content:
FORMAL
FEATURES
Tone
Syntax (sentence
structure)
Narration: point of
view, narrative
perspective, dialogue
Time, pacing,
silence/gaps
Diction (look for
‘charged’ or ‘dense’
words)
Figurative Language:
simile, metaphor,
personification, etc.
Imagery
Symbol
Motif