Preach Analysis Glossary

The eight structural features that make up the Structural Sermonic Index — organizational patterns that score how a text is built at the sentence and paragraph level. These features capture the architecture of preachiness: how imperatives are distributed, how the reader is addressed, whether claims are absolute or hedged, and whether the text escalates toward moral urgency.

The eight word-level categories that make up the Lexical Preachy Index — each measuring the density and prominence of specific types of words and phrases that contribute to a text's sermonic quality. Each category carries a weight multiplier (HIGH at 1.5x, MEDIUM at 1.0x, LOW at 0.5x) reflecting its relative importance in determining overall preachiness.

The scoring formulas and interpretation framework that combine SSI and LPI measurements into a single Sermonic-Preachy Score (SPS) on a 0-5 scale. The SPS provides a unified assessment of how preachy a text is, with five interpretation bands that describe the qualitative character of each score range.