How to do a Text Analysis

For doing a text analysis we must identify the most important aspects of the text, wich are the following:

Theme: An abstract word that tell us the main concept of a text (violence, love, sadness)

Topic: What the subject is about, a phrase that tell us what the text is about, it can be debatable.

Main Idea: Short summary of the text, objective.

This are the main point, but we can also understand the following aspects of the text:

Tone: Serious, sad, angry, impatient.

Genre: Fiction, non-fiction.

Register: Formal, slang (informal),  frozen, intimate

Source: Where the text comes from (Enciclopedias, webpages).

Audience: Who are the ones that are meant to read the book.

Vocabulary: Words the author use.