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Question

how do you analyze something?

Answer 1

you look it over very carefully. find details, pros, cons. you go more in depth than usually needed.

Answer 2

When you analyze something, you consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives".

There are many ways to go about it, but probably the most efficient is to write a list of everything you can think of about it. For instance, if you were analyzing an object, you might consider getting its height, width, depth, weight, temperature, cubic displacement, etc. Also its color, chemical properties, odor, melting point, etc. In that way, you would have a good definition of this particular object. Later, if you are analyzing another object, you might go to the list of everything you have analyzed so far and see if this fits the same data.

When you analyze written stuff, or songs, or other literature, you would want to get the meter, rhymes, deeper meanings, alliteration, similes, metaphors, etc. You just want to break this down into as many different things and categories as you can.

The reason to analyze things is so you can compare and contrast to other things for better meaning, deeper understanding or sharing with other people.