CARD Report For Literature With Sample 
Card Report
You will be writing a card report for each of the novels you have read. A card report is a way of analyzing a fictional work into its several elements. It is called a card report because it has often been done on a 5 by 8-inch index card. This report is a preliminary analysis of the novel. This is not only an assignment in analyzing literature but also in writing. You do not have much time or space, and so every word counts.
On your report you should include the following:
1. The title of the story and the date of its original publication
2. The author 's name and birth and death dates.
3. The name of the central character, together with a description of the character 's main traits or features.
4. Identification of the other characters by role and/or description.
5. A description of the setting (time, place, significant details, social-economic conditions)
6. The narrator/point of view of the story including the role the narrator plays and the appropriateness/limitations of this point of view.
7. A terse summary of the major events of the story given in chronological order.
8. A description of the tone of the story.
9. A statement of the story 's theme in one sentence.
10. Literary Devices such as symbolism and what effect those literary devices have..
11. An evaluation of the story which includes your opinion of it.
You are to use no more than one side of a sheet of paper for this assignment. You can use size 11 font and adjust the margins for the document to 1”. This is a challenging assignment, but you may be surprised by how much more you understand about the story when you have finished it,
On a separate page, list at least three key quotations that you think reveal something significant about the literature. Make one observation about each quotation.
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884
Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Central Character: Huckleberry Finn is approximately 12 years
You will be writing a card report for each of the novels you have read. A card report is a way of analyzing a fictional work into its several elements. It is called a card report because it has often been done on a 5 by 8-inch index card. This report is a preliminary analysis of the novel. This is not only an assignment in analyzing literature but also in writing. You do not have much time or space, and so every word counts.
On your report you should include the following:
1. The title of the story and the date of its original publication
2. The author 's name and birth and death dates.
3. The name of the central character, together with a description of the character 's main traits or features.
4. Identification of the other characters by role and/or description.
5. A description of the setting (time, place, significant details, social-economic conditions)
6. The narrator/point of view of the story including the role the narrator plays and the appropriateness/limitations of this point of view.
7. A terse summary of the major events of the story given in chronological order.
8. A description of the tone of the story.
9. A statement of the story 's theme in one sentence.
10. Literary Devices such as symbolism and what effect those literary devices have..
11. An evaluation of the story which includes your opinion of it.
You are to use no more than one side of a sheet of paper for this assignment. You can use size 11 font and adjust the margins for the document to 1”. This is a challenging assignment, but you may be surprised by how much more you understand about the story when you have finished it,
On a separate page, list at least three key quotations that you think reveal something significant about the literature. Make one observation about each quotation.
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884
Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Central Character: Huckleberry Finn is approximately 12 years