PLAN
 about the writer
name, origin, his style
 about the title
 about the functional style (language, tone)
mistic, ironic, romantic, humorous
delicate humorous touch
high-flown lofty language
highly emotional tone
wordplay
unexpected ending
 about the genre of the story (novel)
social, psychological, historical, detective, science fiction, documentary
 about the composition of the text
types of narration (1st/3rd person)
 about the development of the plot
the exposition, the setting, the climax and the denouement
the theme
 about the personages’ characteristics
main — secondary
round (with changes) — flat (no learned lessons)
 about the stylistic devices
Simile - a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the
words "like", "as", or "than" (Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox)
Hyperbole - is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated (I had taught
her to think)
Metaphor - a trope /or stylistic device/ in which a word or phrase is applied to an
object or action to which it is not literally applicable but seems similar. For example, if
you want to say that someone is very shy and frightened of things, you might say “you
are a mouse” (I went back to my room with a heavy heart)
Antithesis - a rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas
is expressed (A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs)
Irony - A stylistic device in which the word is used in the opposite meaning in the
context. /”You are so brave” addressing it to a coward/
Parallelism - the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that
correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc (Beautiful she was.
Gracious she was. Intelligent she was not).
Inversion - reversal of the usual or natural order words, used typically for rhetorical
effect (Cool was I and logical).