Author’s Purpose

This worksheet asks students to read several statements from Don Quixote and classify each one by the purpose Cervantes intended: parody, social critique, or entertainment. Students must interpret the text to determine whether a moment mocks chivalric tales, comments on society, or aims to amuse the reader. The reflection question pushes students to identify which purpose they believe was most important to Cervantes, using evidence from the novel. This strengthens skills in authorial intent, genre understanding, and literary analysis.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Author’s Purpose Analysis

Satire and Parody Interpretation

Critical Literary Reasoning

Evidence-Based Explanations

This worksheet is part of our Don Quixote Worksheets collection.