Talking About Stories. Theoretical Preliminaries. The Plan for Rendering the Story, страница 5

the repetition of ... implies that ... / these constantly repeated words signify ...

the speech of the character enables the reader ... / reflects his ...

the speech of the character is full of/ can be described as / shows that ...

the use of foil as a means of characterization emphasizes ...

the verbal behaviour is indicative of ...

this detail / this feature is suggestive of the character’s nature / contributes to the character creation

this detail is implicative of / implies that ...

this feature is made absolutely clear with the help of ...

this feature of the protagonist's personality is made explicit with the help of

this is illustrated by / another illustration of this is ...

this scene / episode brings out the following qualities ...

to arouse affection / delight / admiration / resentment / warmth / affection / compassion / dislike / disgust, etc.

to categorize the characters as ...

to contribute to characterization / individualization with ...

to create / produce an impression of ...

to depict / portray / describe / picture a character

to evoke antipathy / disgust / dislike / aversion / animosity

to excite hate / fascination/ sympathy/ compassion

to infer ... from the description of the protagonist's behaviour / manner of speaking / outward appearance

to infer the character’s social status / background / educational level / emotional state through ...

to portray an attractive / charming / appealing / likeable / fascinating character

to reinforce characterization by ...

to reveal / expose/ lay bare somebody’s personality traits through ...

to serve / act as a foil to somebody

to share a character’s emotions

3. MISCELLANEOUS

going back to the text, the evidence of what I was saying is...

in my / his / her / their view

the leading characteristics of the author’s style are simplicity / great precision / elaborate vocabulary / dynamic dialogues, etc.

the author comes up with / creates / builds up a realistic / unrealistic portrayal of ...

the author conveys / communicates / gets across the idea ...

the author draws our attention to ...

the author handles the relationship / the problem / addresses topical and relevant issues

the author has a keen eye for exact and concrete detail, etc.

the author is concerned with country life, etc.

the author plausibly/ skillfully creates the picture of ...

the author puts ... in the focus of the reader's attention

the author reinforces the idea ...

the events described in the story have a truthful ring

the following evidence from the text can support this assertion …

the impact of the outside world

the indications/ clues in the text are ...

the overall idea is ...

the problems / issues the author discusses are burning / crucial / urgent because ...

the story is about the power of love / friendship / the future / parent’s love for their children / the father and son relationship / people’s foibles and faults / people’s ideas of happiness / income-pretension of adults / the institution of marriage / a mysterious murder case / the problem of choice in people’s life, etc.

the story made a favourable / unfavourable impression on me because ...

the story’s major / minor themes are ...

this can be exemplified by/ this idea may be supported by the following ...

to bear on / to relate to ...

to disclose the main idea of the story completely

to draw inferences from something

to manifest itself

to understand the undercurrent of thought

4. PLOT

the absence of exposition stimulates the reader to...

the author confines himself to obligatory plot components only

the author deliberately deviates from the traditional model of plot structure...

the author depicts this type of conflict by focusing on ... / the conflict is rendered through/ by means of...

the author gains by leaving out the denouement

the author gives a hint as to the further development of the action through ...

the author keeps the reader guessing / exploits the reader's expectations

the author leaves out the denouement / exposition ... to achieve