1. Context Purpose Audience Point of View

2. Context-historical context connects the doc to events/time/place
Context-historical context connects the doc to events/time/place. Looks at it in broader sense to other time periods… “the historical context of this doc…”
Purpose-the goal the author is trying to achieve or trying to accomplish. (inform, entertain, persuade, describe)
Audience-specific groups of people author is writing TO or FOR
POV-what is the author’s profession? Gender? Class? Religion? Ethnicity? Then explain HOW this author’s personhood might have impacted WHAT they wrote