Lesson 9 | Identify the Structure

Review

Transitions within a text not only add beauty and style, they work to direct out attention to important details as well as the overall message of the text.
What’s at Stake
Gain: Understanding God’s Plan
Loss: An Impotent Hope
Study Skill
Identify five types of transitions:
  1. Change in time
  2. Change in location
  3. Change in speaker
  4. Change in subject
  5. Rhetorical shifts
  6. Key conjunctions
  7. Repeated patterns
  8. Rhetorical questions
  9. Exclamations
Markup Lens
  1. Highlight transition markers
  2. Use dot notes to record observations, questions, and other notes

Markup