Other types of literature

Variant I

1. Speak on the socio-cultural context containing some data about the historical situation, the author’s literary career, the literary trend, the author’s biography, his aesthetic credo;

2. Relate the plot o f the text and comment on its denotative and thematic structure;

3. Analyze the composition o f the text and its architectonics, point out various deviations from the traditional model: exposition - the beginning and development of the plot - culmination -

denouement - end - epilogue.

4. Characterize the lexical level o f the text: key and thematic words, the usage of colloquial and bookish words, borrowings, slang, neologisms, scientific words. Speak on the paradigmatic and

syntagmatic relations o f the words, their derivational links, synonymic and antonymic pairs and groups;

5. Characterize the stylistic level:

a) observe stylistically marked units: emotive, evaluative, image-

bearing words and expressions, phraseological units and

expressive structures, graphical means o f accentuation;

b) analyze stylistic devices and their functions;

c) speak on the means o f foregrounding: the convergence o f stylistic devices, recurrence, contrast, strong positions o f the text (the title, epigraph, culmination, end, defeated expectancy).

d) find verbal signals o f implicitness: stylistic devices, poetic details, an implicit title and comment on their conceptual significance;

e) consider verbal signals of modality: evaluative words, epithets, characterological details, the author’s meditations, descriptive contexts.

6. Comment on the pragmatic level; the author’s and the character’s images and the ways o f their verbal actualization in the text. Discuss the role o f descriptive contexts, dialogues, monologues, represented speech, the author’s reasoning in representations of “linguistic personality”, his social, ethnic, psychological, individual characteristics;

7. Discuss the conceptual (cognitive) level, making conclusions about:

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  the process o f conceptualization and categorization o f the information contained in the text;
  
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  the usage of literary concepts as content-thematic and conceptual dominants of the text;
  
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  the author’s conceptual world picture, his evaluative attitude and aesthetic views.