The chapter speak of

The text comment on

The passage which I 'm going to analyse
The extract
The story

 Introduces us to the events/happenings/episodes…

 Is a striking example of / a piece of very good satire/humour/realistic writing/science fiction, etc.;.
 Is taken from the book/novel….written by the famous English/American writer/author

OR:

The chapter
The text
The passage under consideration/analysis/discussion
The extract
The story

 introduces us to the events/happenings/episodes

 Is a striking example of / a piece of very good satire/humour/realistic writing/science fiction, etc.;.
 Is taken from the book/novel….written by the famous English/American writer/author

It's a piece of very good satire / English humour/ realistic writing/ science fiction, etc...

The Story is about

The Passage tells us about
The Book speaks about
The Chapter deals with
describes (the life of)

points out to
emphasizes
The author stresses the idea that
wants to stress/to underline
underlines
brings home to the reader

vividly shows the most basic aspects of human relationships

The author gives a deep psychological insight into the characters and human nature in general
pays a lot of attention to the manner of speaking of the characters/the behavior of the
characters

The author describes ... in every detail

Makes every detail very prominent because…..
 sad
gloomy
ironic
good
The narration produces a very great impression….
humorous
funny
sunny

due to the tone in which it is made which in its turn is achieved with the help of such stylistic devices as Eg:

The account of events is very dynamic/very slow

the narration is very dynamic/very slow
the actions develop is a very dynamic way/dynamically/slowly

and this is achieved by a special choice of verbs such as "..." as well as such as "..."

place (un)emotional
The description of the season is quite/very impressive..
Time expressive
nature lovely
scene vivid
picturesque
lyrical
poetic

mostly due to details/ epithets/ metaphors/similies/hyperbolies/exaggerations such as ...

OR:
place clear and warm
The description of the season is made in bright colours
Time
nature dark
scene gloomy

mostly due to details/ epithets/ metaphors/ similies/ hyperbolies/ exaggerations such as ..

 The characters arc depicted directly, i.e. the author himself gives their characteristics and passes his
judgments about their behaviour/ manners/ character/qualities/ feelings/ thoughts/ intentions, etc.
 The method of character drawing the author employed is mostly indirect, i.e.the author leaves it to
the reader for himself to decide about the characters by their words, actions and thoughts.
 The text is written in the first person but the author doesn't identify himself with the ‘I’ because on the
one hand he doesn't want to be very subjective and on the other he wants to involve the reader into
the narration thus making him as it were a participant or a witness or else he aims at making the
reader a sort of creator or co-author which helps to hold up his interest.
 The dialogue is written in a very lively manner.
  The dialogue which is written accurately and with a greatest precision serves a good characteristics to
the characters/personages/
 The speech of…. is very/ highly colloquial, full of colloquial words, phrases and expressions. Eg
 The sentences are short and very often unfinished and elliptical which is typical of oral speech and all
this produces an impression of a lively conversation and an amazing effect of an immediate presence.
 The speech is very emotional. There are a lot of exclamations, rhetorical questions, repetitions of
words, catch repetitions, unfinished sentences.
 The manner of speaking of the characters is utterly unemotional and matter-of-fact, full of
interjections and one-member sentences or just monosyllables which shows his indifference/
annoyance/ depressed state/ the state of detachment

bored

or that the character is not interested in the conversation

not inclined to speak

 The manner of speaking of the character shows that he is over-excited/ anxious/ nervous/ over-
emotional/ desperate. Thus in his speech we can see exclamations and long sentences connecting the
simple sentences of which they consist with the conjunction "and" as if the speaker is in a hurry to say
what he thinks important.

 It's interesting to note that.............

 Though the facts show ... we feel that there's more to... than meets the eye.
 What strikes me as unusual/ curious/ extraordinary/ remarkable, etc… is that….
 From what I could make out I can say….that

 There comes a moment when...

 There was no alternative but...
 I’d like to make a point/ emphasize/ stress/ underline/ highlight..
 the thing I want to mention now is...
 It leaves open the problem of...

 I,ater the author develops..

 The action moves on to...
 It becomes obvious that...
 The critical moment comes when...
 It's only human to expect...

 It would be only natural to stress that…

 It would be wise to mention here…
 While I’m at it I'd like to point out...
 Considering the circumstances it should be noted...
 In the circumstances all he could do was...
 The important thing was that..
 It wouldn't be much to say that….

 I'd like to draw your attention to (the following)

 The way I see it is...
 May I stress once again...
 I might as well add that...
 it appears so on the surface but….

 The point of the story is...

 The story shows that...
 The story ends in...
 The story reveals...
 The end of the story is very suggestive. It proves that...
 The story criticizes...
 If anything the story is humorous/ remarkably interesting/ exciting, etc...
 The title of the story shows that...
 It wouldn't be much to say that...
 This text/extract is a good example of the author's style and his manner of writing general...
 In the story the author raised a very important/ urgent/topical problem of this day, the problem of...
 In the story the author touched upon a seemingly ordinary, everyday and even trivial and mundane
problem of..
 It’s hard to understand at once
 From the episode of… we see….
 Judging by this we can say that…
 The story then goes back to...
 The events that follow show...