- •Keys to college success
- •In the classroom
- •5. Themes and reports
- •6.Reading skills
- •7.Monney matters
- •Assignments
- •The scheme of a stylistic analysis of fiction
- •I. Plot and Plot Structure.
- •Internal Conflict:
- •The Writer’s Voice
- •II. Useful word-combinations for stylistic analysis
- •III. Assignment for a comprehensive stylistic analysis of the text from …
- •Conversational topic
- •Higher education in the usa, uk and ukraine
- •Glossary of terms
- •Who is who:
- •Administration
- •Academic calendar
- •Academic programs
- •Red Tape
- •Financing
- •Language focus assignments Exercise 1. Find out which words are correct and incorrect.
- •…Consists of professors and instructors.
- •Assignments
- •The system of higher education in the usa
- •Assignments
- •V. Complete the following sentences with an expression from below. Use appropriate forms of the words:
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Text 3 the life of youth in the usa
- •Assignments
- •Text 4 higher education in the uk Education beyond sixteen
- •For Your Information: The Sixth Form
- •Types of university
- •2) The Old Scottish universities.
- •3) The early nineteenth-century English universities.
- •4) The older civic (“redbrick”) universities.
- •5) The campus universities.
- •6) The newer civic universities.
- •7) The Open University
- •Exams and qualifications
- •Text 5 higher education in ukraine
- •Ukraine’s national higher education system
- •Application process
- •Structure of the level system of higher education in Ukraine
- •Institutions
- •College
- •Vocational school
- •Assignmets
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary .
- •Text 6 kharkiv university
- •Assignments
- •Text 7 the life of young people in ukraine
- •Assignments
The Writer’s Voice
When a writer has a distinctive style, we may recognize a passage regardless of the setting, plot or theme of a particular story. Every real writer has a distinctive personal voice. E.g. Bret Harte writes in a popular nineteenth-century style, old-fashioned and ornate, with grand rhetorical flourishes and frank appeals to emotion. John Cheever writes in an ironic recent “postmodern” style – allusive, detached, wryly amused.
If we focus on the writer’s voice, we begin to recognize it: a solemn or ironic tone; a mood of foreboding or expectation, a way of looking at places and people, etc. The voice of the author are the writer’s opinions, ideas or emotions forcefully expressed through the text.
II. Useful word-combinations for stylistic analysis
The text comes from the novel by …
The given extract does not constitute a single artistic whole.
It serves as the exposition to …
The basic theme of the extract (and the whole book) is …
The theme is disclosed through the representation of …
The place of action is …
The conflict in the given fragment is between … and … (internal conflict, external conflict).
The plot is based on the collision between … and …
The outcome of the conflict forcibly (переконливо) stresses the message conveyed by the whole text that …
The leading idea runs through the text and is reinforced by various stylistic devices which are distributed through the text; they are …
From the point of view of the manner of presentation the extract is mainly description combined with narration.
The narrative is done in direct speech (indirect speech with some insertions of direct speech).
The style of the author’s third person narrative is tense (стиснутий) and coloured with sparkles of fine irony.
Compositionally the text under analysis falls into 3 (4-5) fragments, each with its own topic.
The opening fragment is the description of … done in the epic (humorous, dramatic, lyrical…) key.
The opening part initiates the reader into the setting and introduces the characters.
The second fragment is a description of …
The third fragment deals with the narration about …
The tonal colouring of the extract is polyphonic.
III. Assignment for a comprehensive stylistic analysis of the text from …
Read the passage given for analysis to the end.
State the novel, story, excerpt comes from.
Define the basic theme of the excerpt and by-themes if any.
Give the gist of the plot and formulate the idea that can be gathered from the surface plot of the text and its title.
Specify the genre of the text and its key (a plot story; a plotless story; a mixed type; the epic key; the dramatic key; the lyrical key; the humorous key; the ironical key; the satirical key).
Identify the components of the plot composition (structure): a. the exposition, b. the beginning of action, i.e. the beginning of the collision and the collision itself (complications), c. the development of action, d. the climax, e. the denouement.
Point out the forms of narration (the 1st person narrative, 3rd person narrative, description, dialogue, monologue and represented speech).
Give a general comment on the language and style: the vocabulary, syntax (simple sentences, complex sentences, etc.).
Indicate the leading stylistic devices of the text; interpret additional information and stylistic effects created by them.
Single out the stylistic devices, which make the expression of the main idea more profound.