Stylistic analysis презентация

Stylistic analysis

Stylistic analysis 1. Summarize the plot (a one-sentence description) 2. Identify the message 3. Setting 4. Type of narration 5. Description of the author's style 6. Description of characters through their language 7. Stylistic devices and their functions in the text

Setting

Setting can help in the portrayal of characters.

Setting can establish the atmosphere of a work.

Plot

Elements of Plot

The Theme / Message .

Narration Author’s narrative: omniscient (= all-knowing) point of view Entrusted narrative: a) the story is told from the point of view of one of the characters who uses the 1st person pronoun “I.” b) the story is told from the point of view of one of the characters who uses the 3d person.

Free direct speech The young woman added hastily: “What style would you like – something modish?” “No. Simple.” “What figure would the young lady be?” “I don’t know; about two inches shorter than you.”

Free indirect speech “Julie got up. She looked determined. She would go to Brighton after all.”

Fiction Elements

Fiction Elements: Structure

Style: Level of Complexity mostly simple sentence structure or varies the sentence structures (simple, compound, complex sentences); simple vocabulary or higher-level word choices dialogue figurative language (similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification, symbolism) level of detail (detailed or schematic) descriptive / too wordy / too flowery / too confusing or “convoluted” means to visualize the images, to understand the concepts, to build suspense

TONE is the author’s attitude toward the subject. can be recognized by the language/word choices the author uses.

TONE Bitter Serious Witty Playful Tender Mysterious Suspenseful

Tone : “A Gift in His Shoes” Donovan and Larry were early for baseball practice. They decided to run up and down the bleachers to exercise before the rest of the team arrived. Larry was first to the top. He whispered to Donovan, “Look over there.” He pointed to a man sleeping on the highest, narrow bench of the bleachers. His pants and shirt were faded, worn, and too large for his thin frame. One big toe stuck out of a huge hole in his sock. His scraped-up shoes sat a few feet away. Donovan whispered, “We should help him out. Let’s hide something good in his shoes. Then, when he wakes up, he will have a nice surprise.”

Tone: “A Gift in His Shoes” How would you describe the tone of this passage? Angry Detached Sympathetic Evidence: help him out, something good, a nice surprise

MOOD MOOD is the overall feelings or emotions that are created IN THE READER. Authors “move” their readers’ moods through their choice of words and level of detail.

MOOD Cheerful Relieved Gloomy Bleak Uncertain

MOOD EXAMPLE  During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder. Mood: content, happy ("warm, excited, glittered”)

MOOD EXAMPLE After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited forlornly by the side of the road to be picked up. Mood: dreary, depressed. ("cold, sigh, brittle, forlornly“)

Types of Characters

Characters Protagonist -the main character in a literary work (usually positive). Antagonist - the character who opposes the protagonist.

Methods of Characterization

Symbolism

Plot Line