Texts for Analysis

1. L. Morrow, The Value of Working (extr.)

2. F. S. Fitzgerald, Three Hours Between Planes (extr.)

3. L. Jones, City of Harlem (extr.)

4. J. Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (extr.)

5. K. Kuh, Modern Art (extr.)

6. J. Joyce, Eveline (extr.)

7. E. Hoaglend, On Essays

8. M. H. Kingston, The Misery of Silence (extr.)

9. W. Collins, The Woman in White (extr.)

10. S. J. Hayakava, Our Son Mark (extr.)

11. W. Collins, The woman in White (extr.)

12. Della T. Lutes, Why I Don’t Tell My Age (extr.)

13. H. E. Bates, The Beauty of the Dead (extr.)

14. W. Collins, The Moonstone (extr.)

15. Ch. Bronté, Jane Eyre (extr.)

16. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night (extr.)

17. Jerom K. Jerom. Three men in a Boat (extr.)

18. E. Hemingway. Cat in the Rain (extr.)

19. B. Kaufman. Up the Down Staircase (extr.)

20. T. Dreiser. Will You Walk into my Parlor (extr.)

Орієнтовна структура аналізу тексту

Linguo-stylistic analysis of emotive prose

Poetic Structure of the Literary Work.

1. The text under analysis is entitled… symbols / images / what it conveys

2. The author of this story is… (relevant information about the author’s creative work and style)

3. The text belongs to … functional style

4. The genre can be defined …

5. Factual information

6. Conceptual information / message / implication

7. The main character is character sketch / characterization conflict, ways

of character’s portrayal.

The attitude of the author to what he is portraying. Reader’s attitude.

8. The setting is … The stylistic functions of setting.

9. The manner of presentation / compositional forms of writing …

10. Cohesion, coherence of the given text.

11. Summary.

Plot structure.Composition.

The exposition The story: The complications, The climax… The denouement…

Plot structure techniques.Literary techniques.Types of plot structure.

Principles of poetic structure cohesion.Principle of incomplete representation.Poetic detail.

Principle of analogy and contrast.Principle of recurrence.

Diction. General Tone.

The general tone of the text is …The neutral vocabulary is mostly used [examples].

Varieties of language.Semantic groups and their pragmatic effect.Denotative and connotative meaning of words in the text.

Lexical Level

Metaphor.Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Irony, Zeugma, Pun, Oxymoron, HyperboleMeiosis, Periphrasis, Euphemism, Epithet, Allusion, Simile, Litotes, Antonomasia, Allegory, Setexpressions.

Morphological Level

Interjection.Thenoun.Thearticle.Adjective.Pronoun.Adverb.Verb.Conjunction.Statisticanalysis.

Syntactic Level.

Stylistic Inversion, Detached construction, Parenthesis, Parallel Construction, Chiasmus, Repetition: anaphora, epiphora, framing / ring, anadiplosis, chain, ordinary, successive. Pleonasm. Tautology.

Enumeration, Suspense / retardation, Climax, Anticlimax / bathos, Antithesis, Apokoinu construction, Emphatic constructions, Asyndeton, Polysyndeton, The Gap-Sentence Link, Attachment, Ellipsis, Aposiopesis, Question-in-the-narrative, Rhetorical questions, Litotes, Paradox, Represented speech.

Phonetic Level Of Analysis

Onomatopoeia.Alliteration.Assonance. Rhyme. Paronomasia.Malapropism.

Graphic Level

Graphon.punctuation, brackets, italics, capitals, spacing / hyphenation, multiplication, layout, indentation.

Inference

Total effect. What is the total impact of the work? How is it achieved?

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