The Plan of the Complete Stylistic Analysis of the Text (4 course)

1. Style, its substyle, information about the author and the novel / story etc.

2. The contents of the passage chosen.

I. Plot and Plot structure

a. Conflict

The conflict is rendered through (one’s thoughts or feelings)

The conflict takes place (within one character)

The conflict in the given fragment is between …and … (internal, external conflict)

• The plot is based on the collision between …and …

• The outcome of the conflict forcibly stresses the message conveyed by the whole text that …

• The plot is based on several conflicts

• The analyzed text reveals the conflict between …

• The conflict between …and … is presented …

2. Setting

• The events are localized (in a certain place and in a certain time)

• The scene is laid

• The setting is established at the beginning of the story, in the exposition

• The exposition introduces the reader into the time and place of events

• The setting is formed in the realistic/ historical/ fantastic/ exotic/ rural/ urban key

• The author gives the authentic /lifelike picture of …

3. Structure of the Composition

• The given extract doesn’t constitute a single artistic whole

• Compositionally the text under analysis falls into 3 (4-5) fragments

• Logically the selection can be divided into …logical parts

• The opening part (exposition) initiates the reader into the setting and characters

• The fragment opens with the description/ portrayal/ dialogue

• The text opens with the topic sentence forming the setting

• In the exposition the author describes

d. Complications (developments)

• Further on the text develops into:

a) a complex narrative structure

b) a circular narrative structure

c) a frame narrative structure

d) a digression

e) a straight line narrative structure

• The subsequent (lines) paragraphs unwrap/ unfold…

• The part that follows portrays/ enlarges on/ depicts

• The next paragraph renders/ conveys/ pictures/ deals with/ concerns/ casts (sheds) light on…

e. Climax

• The episode leads to the climax of the plot

• The climax resolves into…

• The episode… serves as the climax of the text. The climax is presented with retardation

• The climax is withheld until…

• The narrative is interrupted with digressions, foreshadowing, flashback to the past

f. Denouement (upshot)

• The events unwind in

• The story sums up (winds up) with

II. System of Images. Manner of Characterization

• Character-images/ landscape-images/ animal-images/ object-images

• The central (main, major) character; micro synthetic images

• The protagonist; the hero/ heroine; the villain; the antagonist

• to serve as a foil to (for)

• The author’s mouthpiece

• A type/ a caricature/ a simple (flat) character/ a complex (well-rounded) character

• Moral/ mental/ physical/ spiritual characteristics, direct/ indirect characterization

• The author selected the following types of images

• The images build up the following hierarchy

• The narration is done in indirect speech with some insertions of direct speech

• The story is told

• It emerges/ comes out from the text

• The characters are portrayed (delineated) faithfully/ through direct judging by the author’s words/ through the words of other characters

• to give an insight into the inner make-up of

• to be endowed with

• his salient trait of character is

• social standing

• to reinforce characteristics

• to contribute to characterization/ individualization/ verisimilitude;

• to depict/ to portray/ to describe a character

• to evaluate/ to assess/ to rate/ to judge his actions

• to be permeated with sympathy

• to share a character’s emotions

• to arouse warmth, affection, compassion, delight, admiration, dislike, disgust, aversion, resentment, antipathy

• to express the author’s viewpoint directly/ indirectly

• The author resorts to direct/ indirect ways of characterization

• to present the character through actions/ speech characteristics.