How can I improve my analysis of a specific text?

When analysing a text, there are multiple areas we can look at. It is a good idea to look at them individually first, and then see how they link in the text as a whole once we have established good knowledge of the individual elements. Analysis can consist of language, structure and context. So looking at language, say you have an extract from the text to focus on, some good questions to ask are: Does it feel as if it flows? Or is it disjointed? Is there any dialogue? Or just descriptive language? What language techniques are used? When looking at the structure of a text (the way it is made up and how it looks on the page), some good questions to ask are: What does the text actually look like in terms of shape? What form is the text in? Poem? Novel?Is it in paragraphs? Or is it in big chunks of text? When looking at the context (historical, social and political background of the text, as well and its author and any other works they might have), some good questions to ask are: What was going on in politics at the time the text was written/published? What was the author themselves like? Did they have any kind of literary reputation? Are there any other texts by the same author that are similar to this one? In what way are they similar? Is there anything in the personal life of the author that might have caused him/her to write this text? What is its purpose?