📚 Part 1: Understanding Authorial Intent

1. What is authorial intent?

The author's biography and personal life

The author's purpose and what they want readers to think or feel

The number of pages in the text

The genre of the text

2. Which literary devices can authors use to convey their intent? (Select all that apply)

Metaphor

Irony

Narrative voice

Imagery

Tone

3. An author writes: "The rain hammered against the windows like angry fists." The author's likely intent is to:

Describe pleasant weather

Create a sense of violence or threat

Explain how windows are made

Show that it's a sunny day

4. When analysing authorial intent, we should consider:

Only the literal meaning of words

How language features and text structure shape meaning

Only our personal opinions

The author's appearance

✏️ Part 2: Analysing Text Excerpts

Read this excerpt:

"The old house stood silent and forgotten, its broken windows like hollow eyes staring into the darkness. Weeds choked the garden where children once played, and the rusty gate creaked mournfully in the wind."

5. What is the author's likely intent in this passage?

6. Identify TWO literary devices used and explain how each contributes to the authorial intent:

Device 1: ________________________

How it contributes: _________________________________________________

Device 2: ________________________

How it contributes: _________________________________________________

7. How does the author's choice of imagery shape your response as a reader?

🎯 Part 3: Creating with Intent

8. Write 3-4 sentences with the intent to make your reader feel hopeful. Use at least one literary device (metaphor, simile, imagery, etc.):

9. Using metalanguage, explain which literary device you used and how it helps achieve your authorial intent:

10. Reflection: How does recognising authorial intent change how you understand a text?

Analyzing Authorial Intent

Analysing Authorial Intent

📚 Part 1: Understanding Authorial Intent

✏️ Part 2: Analysing Text Excerpts

🎯 Part 3: Creating with Intent

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