1. Your Mission: identify the effects of author’s strategies on the reader. Audience Effects: The effects an author’s strategies have on you the reader.

2. Verisimilitude YOU BETTER KNOW THIS ONE BY NOW! Having the quality of seeming real, without actually being real. Kinda like when you shake your head up and down when your mom asks you if you’re listening, but you’re really not. #aintfoolingnobody

3. Universality The ability of a work of literature to apply to all times and places. Most often, it will incorporate one or more of these themes: – Mankind vs. him/herself – Mankind vs. Nature – Mankind vs. Society – Mankind Struggles to Understand God – Crime Doesn’t Pay – Overcoming Adversity – Friendship and Sacrifice – Importance of Family – Love is the Worthiest of Pursuits – Death is Part of the Life Cycle – Sacrifices Bring Reward

4. Urgency Does the author express a sense of urgency for you to understand or to take action? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/11112159/P rince-Charles-urges-action-against-climate-change-before-it-is-too-late.html

5. Empathy Empathy: identifying with another's situation, condition, motives, and thoughts. The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another person of either the past or present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1 Rt1R4xbM https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Q5jrUg_kXjY Suli Breaks made you empathize with students, parents, and teachers by detailing their feelings.

6. Emphasis In writing and speech, the repetition of key words and phrases or the careful arrangement of words to give them special weight and prominence. http://www.wimp.com/repetitionmusic/

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEbIuDuW7l8 1.What are three Universal themes you see in this poem? 1.What urgent demand is the author making? What do you feel that he is telling you to do? 1.Do you feel empathy for others being expressed? 1.What words or phrases have been emphasized by the author? How does it effect you when you read it? 1.What are three Universal themes you see in this poem? 1.What urgent demand is the author making? What do you feel that he is telling you to do? 1.Do you feel empathy for others being expressed? 1.What words or phrases have been emphasized by the author? How does it effect you when you read it?