THE FORM OF PRESENTATION

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 513.

THE STRUCTURAL STUDY OF THE TEXT

Read the text once more and answer the questions. Where and when do the events take place? How are the characters introduced? Is the exposition of the story extended? What makes the situation become complicated? What passage of the story is the tensest? When does the development of the actions reach its culmination? When does the action of the story declines? What passage of the story makes everything clear? Is the denouement of the story of quite an ordinary type? What is the conflict of the story? Is it a personal or social conflict? Does it concern the character of a person, the relations between people, lifestyles, or the relations between people and society? What kind of people is taken as an illustration of the conflict? What is the idea of the story? Is the attitude of the characters of the story to the conflict the same? What is the problem of the story? Is it acute today? In what degree can the story be referred to the contemporary society?

What type of the narration is the story done in? Does the narrator participate in the events presented? Does he present the events through his personal point of view only? What is done for? Do the events of the story come in logical succession or in flashbacks? Is the narration static or dynamic? What is the exterior monologue interrupted with? What type of speech prevails in the story?

PHONETIC, MORPHOLOGICAL, LEXICAL
AND SYNTACTIC STUDY OF THE TEXT

Read the story once more and answer the questions and fulfil the tasks. The words in bold italics are phonetically motivated. Divide them into those of direct and indirect onomatopoeia. What effect is produced through phonetically motivated words? Why is it important?

Analyze the morphological structure of the words in italics. What derivational patterns have they been built on? What features do these words emphasize? Is it important for the understanding of the contents of the story?

Write out the meanings of the words in bold print. Analyze the semantics of the words. What connotations make the words expressive? In what way do the connotations of the words contribute to the description of the place and the characters? Make the list of such words that describe the owner of the shop and his customer. Are the connotations of the same quality?

Mr. Purcell is named in the story as “a professional man, a storekeeper, and a merchant”. What is the difference between the words? In what way is Mr. Purcell characterized through these words?

The underlined words and expressions in bold italics describe the situation of communication. What features betray American English in the phrases? What layer of the language do they belong to? What effect is achieved?

The text is rich in sentences built on different patterns. Pick out of the underlined structures the examples of interrogative ones. Are all of them pure questions? Do all of them correspond to the grammar rules? What feelings, emotions, or attitudes do they describe? Make the list of imperative sentences. What states of the characters do they describe? Give examples of the sentences with emphatic structures, exclamations, and break in the narration. What is described with the help of such sentences? In what way does each type of the sentences contribute to the general tone of the story? What is it like? In what way does the tone of the exterior monologue and the dialogue differ?