DIDLS

Diction: Need to remember that the words of an actual essay or story are very important, and the author actually took time to think of words that would have a double meaning, or sound interesting and different in their piece to make it stand out from another piece about the same subject. The diction of a piece sometimes you can't notice, but other times you can see the cleverness in the words. The author will use words to evoke feeling that normally wouldn't come about while reading a piece of work.
Imagery: Imagery in a piece of work is to me the most important thing an author can have. If the reader can't imagine the scene that they are reading, the y won't enjoy the story as much as a reader that can actually see the scene going on in their minds. Imagery should turn books into a movie, that plays non stop while you're reading. Imagery should be so prominent that when the reader puts the book down, all they can think about is what happened in the story. The reader should be dreaming about the words in a book. The scenes should be vivid, so the reader goes into the story, becomes a part of it.
Details: The details of a book or piece of work are just as important as imagery as well. Details makes a reader know every little aspect of a characters life. The detail can range from pages and pages of scenery, or just the tiniest detail that comes back later in the story, and creates that connection in the readers mind from one scene to another. Detail can be color, it can be describing someone's hair, or it can be how someone looks. Whatever it is, it's important that the author puts it in.
Language: Language is also something that should be noted. To me language and syntax go together a lot. Language is something that will catch the readers eye when reading a book. Like in Hamlet, the first line is a question, this starting catches the readers eye, and the answer to this question sets up a lot of the themes in the ply, how everyone is very defensive, and won't just come out and tell the truth.
Syntax: The biggy. This category is a lot harder for me to explain. It's definitely the hardest subject to understand and see. Syntax is something that if someone learns to look for, they will find. If someone who isn't interest in english that much, and doesn't know what syntax is, they won't notice the amazing syntax that is really in every piece of writing out there. In every novel, the syntax is there. When I first learned syntax, I was like uhm what? but now I can see it. I love that I can now see something and think, oh that was clever of the author to put that sentence in that order.