Stylistic Analysis: - Setting - Plot - Theme - Narration - Characters

Stylistic analysis
•Setting
•Plot
• Theme
•Narration
•Characters
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
the time in which the action takes place
The
geographical
location, The specific
including characteristics of
location - building,
room, etc.
Setting
can help in the portrayal of characters.
“I write this sitting in the kitchen
sink. That is, my feet are in it; the
rest of me is on the draining-
board."
“I capture the Castle”
by Dodie Smith
Setting
can establish the atmosphere of a work.
“It was a dark and stormy

night… .”
The series of events and actions that takes place in a story.
Climax
Beginning End
Expositions Resolution
Elements of Plot
Conflict
•Man VS Man
•Man VS Nature
•Man VS Society
•Man VS Himself
•is the central idea, the purpose of a
work
•some insight into the human nature
or society
• the moral lesson (perhaps)
•stands clear only through the overall
analysis
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
“Juliegot up. She looked
determined. She would go
to Brighton after all.”
•Dialogue (speech characteristics)
•Interior monologue
•Stream-of-consciousness
•Author’s remarks
Foreshadowing: early clues about what will happen later in a
piece of fiction
Chronological: starts at the beginning and moves through
time.
Flashback: starts in the present and then goes back to the
past.
Circular or Anticipatory: starts in the present, flashes back
to the past, and returns to the present at the conclusion.
Panel: same story told from different viewpoints.
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 Nonchalant
Serious Angry
Witty Detached
Playful Poignant
Tender Compassionate
Mysterious Sympathetic
Suspenseful Humorous
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?
a. Angry
b. Detached
c. 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 Bittersweet
Relieved Relaxed
Gloomy Confused
Bleak Hopeless
Uncertain Tense
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
•Round Character: convincing, true to life and
have many character traits.
•Dynamic Character: undergoes some type of
change in story because of something that happens
to them.
•Flat Character: stereotyped, shallow, often
symbolic. They have one or two personality traits.
•Static Character: does not change in the course of
the story
Characters
Protagonist -the main
character in a literary work
(usually positive).
Antagonist - the character
who opposes the protagonist.
Methods of Characterization
• direct - “he was an old man…”
• characters’ thoughts, words, and actions
• reactions/comments of other characters
• character’s physical appearance
• characters’ thoughts
Symbolism
A symbol represents an idea, quality, or
concept larger than itself.
A Journey Water may
can symbolize represent a new
life. beginning.
Black can
represent evil or
death.
Climax: The turning point. The most intense
moment (either mentally or in action.
Rising Action: the

series of conflicts and Falling Action: all of the action
crisis in the story that which follows the Climax.
lead to the climax.
Resolution: The conclusion, the

Exposition: The start of the story. The
tying together of all of the threads.
way things are before the action starts.

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Stylistic analysis

“It was a dark and stormy

Evidence: help him out, something good, a nice surprise

Authors “move” their readers’

Mood: dreary, depressed. ("cold, sigh, brittle,

Rising Action: the

Resolution: The conclusion, the

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