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Part 1
LITERARY TEXT AS POETIC STRUCTURE
VERBAL AND SUPRAVERBAL LAYERS OF THE LITERARY TEXT
1. What makes up the verbal layer of the literary text?
2. What does the verbal layer represent?
3. What components constitute the suraverbal layer of the text?
4. What is the result of the cohesion of two layers?
5. What is the basic unit of the poetic structure?
6. Why is the word considered to be the basic unit of the poetic structure of literary text?
PRINCIPLES OF POETIC STRUCTURE COHESION
7. What is meant by imaginative representation of reality?
8. What is the function of aesthetic principles?
Principle of Incomplete Representation
9. What factors condition incomplete representation?
10. What does the degree of incompleteness of representation depend upon?
11. What does the principle of incomplete representation manifest itself in?
12. What may function as a detail in a literary work?
13. What details may represent the character of a literary work?
14. Do poetic details always provide direct characterization?
15. In what way does presupposition contribute to incomplete representation?
Principle of Analogy and Contrast
16. What is the essence of the principle of analogy and contrast?
17. Why do we regard analogy and contrast as the organizing axis of poetic structure?
18. What stylistic devices are based on analogy/contrast?
Principle of Recurrence
19. What does the principle of recurrence consist in?
20. What may recur in a literary text?
21. Dwell on the functions the recurrent elements perform in the text.
22. What stylistic devices does the principle of recurrence underlie?

COMPONENTS OF POETIC STRUCTURE

MACRO-COMPONENTS OF POETIC STRUCTURE
1. What macro-components does the poetic structure involve?
Genre
2. What do we mean by genre of a literary work? What genres do you know?
Plot and Plot Structure
3. Define the term “plot”. What does the plot of a literary work comprise?
4. How are literary conflicts classified? What are the types of external conflicts?
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5. What element of the plot is referred to as setting? What functions does the setting
perform in the text?
6. What are the components of the plot structure? Characterize each of them.
7. Describe closed and open plot structures.
8. Speak on the varieties of plot structure patterns.
9. Does the plot always follow a chronological order? What techniques can the author
resort to?