Of what?
There's a lot of definitions for this. Probably the most common would be... I don't really know how to explain it. I have an example though; "star crossed lovers".
It affects the meaning of the text by comparing her hair color with wires suggesting that her color is black.
Answer:
Well if you determine the point of view of the story I would read it in my head and that out loud so I can understand it a little more then I would underline or highlight the sources and when I finish doing that I start typing things that come out of my head about the story.
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