Analyzing analysis

To analyze something is to break whatever it is you're looking at, down into its most basic parts, and then building an opinion, synopsis, overview, or idiots guide of you're subject. In the most basic terms, and you probably see these every day, movie reviews, video game reviews, book reviews, and things like these are analysis. If a movie has 1 out of 4 stars, that's an analysis. If a book is a "must read," or "New York Times Best-Seller," that's a review as well. But those are simple analysis, that are the summation of a few, or many, peoples' analysis of the subject. So the key features of an analysis include the topic or subject, a guide or review, a synopsis, and some sort of rating that correlates to the subject.