Assignments for Analysis. 1. What type of narrative is used?

1. What type of narrative is used? What is the author’s purpose in resorting to it? Point out some of the characteristic features resulting from the choice.

2. What is gained by telling the story in the first person? How does the fact influence the mood and the atmosphere of the narration?

3. What is the general tone of the letter? What impression do you form of the character of Sylvia Barrett from her letter? Is she detached in her attitude to the facts described? Prove your point of view.

4. Exemplify the use of colloquialisms and learned words. Why does the author of the letter make use of both?

5. What method of characterization is used in drawing the image of Admiral Ass.?

6. What language means are used to show Sylvia’s attitude to the children and her attempts to fight against the red tape? Comment on the use of the language means in the passage “I’ve been trying to teach without books … - when who should materialize but Admiral Ass.”

7. Indicate the SD in the sentence “They crowded at the doorway, chirping like agitated sparrows…” Comment on the fitness of the comparison with sparrows in this sentence.

8. Point out the sentences bearing the touches of humor and irony.

9. Comment on the passage beginning with “There are a few good, hard-working, patient people…” What immediate impression does it make on you? What is the key sentence of the passage?

10. What type of teachers do Paul Barringer and Dr. Bester belong to? Dwell on the way each character is described.

11. Comment on the title. What SD is used? Why?

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