2.5 Mixed Bag

A

1 abundance of

2 accentuate/point out / admit/ emphasize/ state

3 account of events

4 achieve the effect, the effect is achieved

5 add weight to ...

6 admit/ point out / emphasize/ state/ accentuate

7 affect one's imagination/ intellect/ emotions

8 affinity

9 allow/ give choice to the reader

10 allow the reader an insight into

11 ample characteristics / characterization

12 appeal / entreat/ persuade

13 art /skill / craftsmanship

14 art of making a few phrases / words go far

15 assailed / overwhelmed with feelings / emotions

16 attach to / attribute to

17 attach meaning to

18 attitude (the author's ..., to suggest the ...)

19 attribute to / attach to

20 author's stand / outlook / choice of vocabulary

21 author's message

В

1 based on

2 begin / initiate / usher

3 belief (erroneous ..., breed a ..., stem from the ,.. that)

4 bitterly criticize

5 blend

6 blended (... narration / description)

7 blended with .

8 breed a belief that

9 brief description

10 brimful of meaning

11 build

С

1 calm narrative

2 carry the idea / meaning / emotional charge

3 casual (to sound ...)

4 centered upon the image / personality

5 characteristic of economy of words

6 characterization (ample ...)

7 charge (emotional ..., emotive ...)

8 clue to (to give a clue to)

9 comedy

10 comment on / dwell on / speak on / touch on / enlarge on

11 compile a character

12 condition_v / create / make / build

13 connotation

14 connotative meaning

15 contrapose

16 contribute to ...

17 conversational (... vocabulary / word-choice)

18 convey much while saying a little

19 co-occur (words of different stylistic layers ...)

20 core of vocabulary (the author's ...)

21 cow (be cowed, uncowed)

22 create an effect

23 craftsmanship / art / skill

24 criticize

D

1 decorative

2 deduce, be deduced

3 denotation

4 denotative meaning

5 denote / mean

6 depict /describe / portray / present

7 describe / depict / portray / present

8 description

9 details (sparingly given ...)

10 dialogue

11 direct meaning

12 discern (... right and wrong, ... right from wrong)

13 disclose / unfold

14 discrepancy

15 disguise

16 disparity

17 drama

18 dramatic (... monologue / effect)

19 draw an analogy

20 dwell on / speak on / touch on / enlarge on / comment on

E

1 economy of words (characteristic of ...)

2 effect (stylistic ..., emotional ..., produce an ..., ... achieved, gain an ...)

3 effective (emotionally ..., stylistically ...)

4 elaborate_v

5 elaborate_adj

6 elaborated_adj

7 elaborately

8 elaboration

9 eloquent

10 embodiment

11 emphasis

12 emphasize

13 emotional charge

14 emotionally coloured

15 emotive charge

16 emotive / stylistic quality

17 employ / use

18 enable the reader to visualize / imagine

19 enlarge on / expand on

20 entreat / appeal / persuade

21 enumerate (... scrupulously)

22 erroneous (... belief)

23 essential / main (... principle)

24 essential issues of life

25 esthetic ( also aesthetic)

26 evil (the ...)

27 exercise_v influence (... on the reader)

28 expand on / enlarge on

29 expose / unfold / reveal / mirror

30 extract under discussion / consideration / study

31 extremely effective in conveying

F

1 face value (take things at their ...)

2 fact (take into consideration the ...)

3 feeling / emotions (be overwhelmed / assailed with)

4 figure of speech

5 flood of thoughts / impressions

6 give smth a dynamic ...)

7 flowery (... word choice / vocabulary)

8 futility / hopelessness

G

1 gain an effect

2 generalize

3 get aware of / see well enough / realize

4 give a peculiar tint to ...

5 give smth a dynamic flow

6 give the reader choice

7 give details sparingly

8 give ground to / prove

9 give one's grounds

10 gravity / seriousness of the problem / issue

11 grotesque

12 gusto (with too much ..., with great ...)

H

1 hackneyed / trite / off-beaten (... phrase)

2 have a sharp eye for

3 hold a clue to

4 humorous effect

I

1 illustrative of

2 image

3 image of real life

4 impact on the reader

5 impassioned concern

6 implied meaning

7 implication contained

8 imperceptibly blended with

9 impersonal objective quality

10 impose one's personality upon

11 indicative of ...

12 individualize (... an image / portrait / character)

13 inner world of the character / protagonist (create the …)

14 interior monologue

15 interlocutor

16 interplay of the direct and the implied meanings

17 intricately involved writing

18 inversion

J

1 juxtapose

2 juxtaposition

K

1 keenly concerned with

L

1 leit-motif

2 lend colour to /tint

3 lend colouring / nuance to

4 let / permit the reader judge / think / observe / pass his judgement

M

1 main / essential principle

2 make / create / build

3 make the reader share smb's disgust / sympathy

4 manifest_y, manifested

5 manner (reserved ...)

6 marked by simplicity / tenseness / intense objectivity

7 matter-of-fact

8 meaning (metaphorical / implied / direct ..., brimful of ...)

9 meditate / speculate / ponder

10 mention in passing / touch on (ant. dwell on / scrupulously enumerate)

11 message (the author's ..., to convey one's ...)

12 metaphorical meaning

13 method of character drawing / depicting

14 mirror_v/ reveal / unfold / expose

15 missing links (permit the reader to supply the …)

16 monologue

17 moral and mental make up

N

1 narrate, narrated

2 narration of (to do the ...)

3 narration (first / second person / anonymous …)

4 narrative_n (calm / pathetic / unaffected / simple ...)

5 narrator

6 novel

7 novella (pl -lle)

8 novelette

9 nuance / colouring (lend …)

O

1 observe (let the reader ...

2 obviously expressed

3 opposite / prominent (stand …)

4 optimistic (sound ...)

5 outlook / stand (the author's …)

P

1 pass one's judgement

2 penetration into the character / character's inner world

3 perception

4 permit the reader to judge / think / observe / pass his judgement / supply the missing links / visualize the scene

5 personify

6 persuade / appeal / entreat

7 phrase

8 plain / conversational (... vocabulary / word-choice)

9 plot story / action story

10 point out / admit / emphasize / state / accentuate

11 ponderous / plain / conversational (... vocabulary / word choice)

12 portraiture

13 prevail

14 prevalent

15 present / depict / portray / describe

16 presented in a non-committal seemingly impersonal objective way

17 principle of incomplete presentation

18 principle of analogy and contrast

19 principle of recurrence

20 problem / issue (gravity / seriousness of the ...)

21 protagonist

22 prove / give ground

23 psychological short story / character short story

Q

1 quote

2 quotation

R

1 reader is given the choice

2 realize / see well enough / be aware of

3 recur

4 recurrence

5 recurrent

6 regard / take into consideration (the reader ... the fact)

7 (in) regards (to)

8 refer to, be referred to

9 refuse

10 reiteration / repetition / scrupulous enumeration

11 relevant

12 remarkable for care and precision

13 reserved manner

14 rest on

15 retard

16 retardation

17 reveal / expose / unfold / mirror

18 reveal the idea

19 reveal (... the good / beautiful / evil / ugly / just / unjust)

S

1 scanty / sparingly given (… description)

2 scene (visualize the …)

3 shape / mould

4 sharp eye for (to have a ...)

5 shift / change (... in / of mood)

6 short story (psychological / character or plot / action …)

7 simple (... language)

8 simplicity (marled by ...)

9 skill / art / craftsmanship

10 soliloquy

11 sophisticated (... language)

12 sound_v (... casual / indifferent)

13 sparingly given details

14 speak on / dwell on / touch on / enlarge on / comment on

15 speak volumes

16 speculate / meditate / ponder

17 state / point out / admit / emphasize / accentuate

18 stem_v (... form smth)

19 story (psychological / character ..., plot / action ...

20 straightforward / direct (... word / phrase)

21 strike smb / impress smb , be struck

22 study / discussion / consideration (extract / story under...)

23 style (humorous / turgid / lucid / lofty / delightful / florid)

24 stylistic / emotive quality

25 stylistic reference

26 substantiate one's idea

27 succession

28 suggestive of ...

29 supply the missing links ( permit the reader to ... )

T

1 take into consideration / regard (… the fact)

2 take sides with

3 take the stand on all essential issues of life

4 take the tradition

5 take things at their face value

6 tint / lend colour to ...

7 tragedy

8 trite / hackneyed / off-beaten (... phrase)

9 trope

10 typify

U

1 uncowed

2 underlying (... thought)

3 unfold / expose / reveal / mirror / disclose

4 usher / begin / initiate

V

1 view-point /opinion

2 views (emotionally coloured ...)

3 vocabulary / word-choice (conversational / plain / ponderous / embellished / flowery / less decorative ...)

4 volubility

W

1 warm humour

2 word-choice / vocabulary (conversational / plain / ponderous / embellished / flowery / less decorative ...)

3 worked up (... suspense)

4 writing (intricately involved ...)

Note:

1) the brackets show the most likely combinations;

2) the three dots show the position occupied by the word or phrase under consideration in these combinations;

3) the slant line introduces various combining units, sometimes synonymic.

The vocabulary presented makes up the core of the metalanguage of stylistic analysis, the information given is but rudimentary. For more exhaustive knowledge of making the analysis you must refer to the books listed below.