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1. Tell a few words about the author and his\her style.
2. Give a summary/ précis of the work.
3. Analyze the setting:
3.1 What is the work’s setting in space and time?
3.2 How does the author go about establishing setting? Does the author want the reader to see or feel the setting, or does the author want the reader both see and feel? What details of the setting does the author isolate and describe?
3.3 Is the setting important? If so, what is its function? Is it used to reveal, reinforce, or influence character, plot or theme?
3.4 Is the setting an appropriate one?
4. Analyze the plot:
4.1 What is the conflict on which the plot turns? Is it external, internal, or some combination of the two?
4.2 What are the chief episodes or incidents that make up the plot? Is its development strictly chronological, or is the chronology rearranged in some way?
4.3 Compare the plot’s beginning and end. What essential changes have taken place?
4.4 Describe the plot in terms of its exposition, complication, crisis, falling action, resolution.
4.5 Is the plot unified? Do the individual episodes logically relate to one another?
4.6 Is the ending appropriate to and consistent with the rest of the plot?
4.7 Is the plot plausible? What role, if any, do chance and coincidence play?
5. Analyze the characters:
5.1 Who is the protagonist of the work and who (or what) is the antagonist? Describe the major traits and qualities of each.
5.2 What is the function of the minor characters?
5.3 Identify the characters in terms of whether they are flat or round, dynamic or static.
5.4 What methods does the author employ to establish and reveal the character? Is the method of characterization direct or indirect?
5.5 Are the actions of the characters properly motivated and consistent?
5.6 Are the characters of the work finally credible and interesting?
6. Define the patterns of written prose used by the author (description, narration, argumentation, exposition).
7. Define the style of the text (functional style and the style according to the sphere of communication). Comment choice of the words used by the author (key words).
8. Analyze stylistic devices used by the author (repetitions, syntactical parallelism, inversion, epithet, metaphor).
9. Define the role of humour in the story, the type of humour (humour of situation or humour of words).
10. Define the theme of the work. Does it raise serious problems? What are they?
11. Comment on the title. How does it reveal the main idea of the text? Define the central idea, the message.
12. Give your impressions of the text.
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