AP LAST DITCH LIST--The Big 12 (Main Tuesday post follows)

Nope, not sports, and in no particular order (except the first)--and not a mnemonic :(
situation (including speaker, audience, occasion – [poetry and speeches]) or plot
structure
theme
diction
syntax
point of view (and voice)
symbolism
mood
tone
irony (3 kinds – verbal, situational, dramatic)
imagery
prosody (for poetry) ("prosody" means meter/rhyme, etc.-- rely on what you notice, not fancy terms)

I added this because in the post below, I said that if the prompt gave you no particular direction for the "how," you just had to be smart.  Well, beyond DIDLS or some of last year's acronyms, this is the arsenal that helps you be smart.