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title: "Close reading AI Prompts (26 Free Templates) - AgentDock"
description: "26 free close reading prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Professional templates with smart variables. Copy and use instantly, or run them in the AgentDock editor."
url: "https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/close-reading"
docs_index: /llms.txt
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# Close reading AI Prompts (26 Free Templates) - AgentDock

26 free close reading templates, including Explication Essay Writer and Translation Comparison Generator.

- [Explication Essay Writer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/writing/explication-essay-writer.md): Generate a line-by-line explication essay of a poem or passage that shows how form, diction, sound, and imagery build meaning.
- [Translation Comparison Generator](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/translation-comparison-generator.md): Compare two or more translations of the same passage to see where they diverge in word choice, tone, and fidelity versus fluency
- [Tone Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/tone-analyzer.md): Analyze any passage to pinpoint the author's tone, their attitude toward the subject, kept clearly separate from mood
- [Setting Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/setting-analyzer.md): Analyze any passage to pinpoint its setting, time, place, and atmosphere, then see how it builds mood, shapes character, and drives conflict
- [Poetry Analysis Generator](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/writing/academic/poetry-analysis-generator.md): Analyze a pasted poem using TPCASTT, SOAPSTone, or free-form close reading, producing line-quoted evidence covering form, sound devices, figurative language, tone, shifts, and theme.
- [Text-to-World Connections Generator](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/text-to-world-connections-generator.md): Get real text-to-world connections modeled for any passage, moments in the story linked to history, current events, or social issues
- [Opening Line and Epigraph Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/opening-line-and-epigraph-analyzer.md): Analyze a novel's opening lines and epigraph to reveal the hook, tone, and themes they set up for the story
- [Film Analysis Essay Writer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/writing/film-analysis-essay-writer.md): Generate a film analysis essay draft that argues an interpretive thesis about a film's craft, proved through scene-specific evidence rather than plot summary.
- [Verse vs Prose in Drama Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/verse-vs-prose-in-drama-identifier.md): Identify which passages in any scene or play are verse and which are prose, each one labeled with why the playwright switched
- [Unreliable Narrator Evidence Finder](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/unreliable-narrator-evidence-finder.md): Find the evidence that a first-person narrator cannot be fully trusted, contradictions, gaps, and biased language sorted by type
- [Text Annotation Guide](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/writing/academic/annotating-a-text-guide.md): Generate a model text annotation showing what to flag and why, explain the annotation method, or annotate a passage for a named academic purpose.
- [Literary Analysis Essay Writer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/writing/literary-analysis-essay-writer.md): Generate a literary analysis essay draft that argues an interpretive thesis about a novel, poem, or play, proven through close reading and integrated textual evidence.
- [Sentence Types Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/sentence-types-identifier.md): Analyze any sentence or passage to identify its type, simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex by structure, and by purpose
- [Period English Comparison Generator](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/period-english-comparison-generator.md): Analyze a period English passage against modern English across vocabulary, grammar, word order, and spelling to reveal how the language shifted
- [Soliloquy Interpreter](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/soliloquy-interpreter.md): Follow a soliloquy's private reasoning line by line, the internal conflict, how the thinking develops, and what it reveals about the character
- [Point of View Narrator Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/point-of-view-narrator-analyzer.md): Analyze any passage to identify its exact point of view, first, second, or third person, and what the narrator can and cannot know
- [Personification Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/personification-identifier.md): Find every instance of personification in a passage or poem, or get personification suggestions for a scene you are writing
- [Text Structure Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/text-structure-identifier.md): Identify any nonfiction passage's text structure, cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, or problem and solution, with signal words and a graphic organizer
- [Oxymoron Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/oxymoron-identifier.md): Find every true oxymoron in a passage or speech, kept separate from paradox and juxtaposition, or look up common pairings for a word
- [Stage Directions Interpreter](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/stage-directions-interpreter.md): Interpret any scene's stage directions to reveal staging, blocking, and the emotional subtext behind a gesture or pause
- [Stanza Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/stanza-analyzer.md): Get any poem's stanzas broken out and named from couplet through octave, with the pattern and whether each holds a closed thought
- [Symbolism Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/symbolism-analyzer.md): Analyze any passage or work to name its symbolism, each symbol backed by evidence, sorted into conventional or context-specific, and tied to theme
- [Satire and Parody Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/satire-and-parody-identifier.md): Find where any passage uses satire or parody, each instance named by technique and tied to what is being criticized or mimicked
- [Text-to-Self Connections Generator](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/text-to-self-connections-generator.md): Get genuine text-to-self connections modeled for any passage, moments in the story linked to personal experience, memory, or feeling
- [Rhyme Scheme Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/rhyme-scheme-identifier.md): Get a line-by-line rhyme scheme breakdown for any poem, the pattern and form named, each rhyme marked perfect or slant
- [Shakespeare Modern Translator](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/shakespeare-modern-translator.md): Translate any Shakespearean passage into modern English line by line, the original shown alongside so no pun or wordplay gets lost

## Related tags

- [Education](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/education.md)
- [Literary analysis](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/literary-analysis.md)
- [Writing](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/writing.md)
- [Drama](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/drama.md)
- [Poetry analysis](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/poetry-analysis.md)
- [Reading comprehension](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/reading-comprehension.md)
- [Shakespeare](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/shakespeare.md)
- [Literary devices](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/literary-devices.md)
- [Academic writing](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/academic-writing.md)
- [Figurative language](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/figurative-language.md)
- [Point of view](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/point-of-view.md)
- [Grammar](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/grammar.md)