Useful Phrases and Clichés on 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.

III. Narrative method Read more:

(Borisova – pp.47-52)

1. Through whose eyes and mind does the reader receive the story? Define the narrative type and the type of narrator.

2. What advantage did the author gain in having the story told by a medical student? Does it increase credibility of the story and reveal the personality of the narrator?

3. How many episodes did the author choose in order to describe the hardships and privations of those who study?

4. How does the author make his readers understand that students are inclined to exaggerate the difficulties of their training?

5. What details does the author linger on? What do they suggest?

Useful Phrases and Clichés on Narrative Method

• The omniscient author/ the observer-author/ an outlook/ an observer

• The story is delivered/ told from the point of view of…

• The events are presented through the perception of/ the eyes of

• The dominant point of view

• The dramatic form/ the pictorial form

• The story is presented in the dramatic/ pictorial form

• A reliable/ unreliable narrator

• The narrator enters into the mind of…/ reveals the personality of/ shares the viewpoint of/ gives a biased view of a first-hand testimony

• The immediacy and freshness of the impression

• to stimulate imagination

• to increase the credibility of the plot

• to stimulate the reader to make his own judgements

• to make the reader draw his own conclusion.