What is the plan of the work? For example, so that later you can easily recall a read novel, play or poem in your memory. And when drawing up a plan, the plot-compositional structure of the text is usually taken as a basis.
Instructions
Step 1
Read the piece.
Step 2
In the process of reading, pay attention to the heading of the text: parts, chapters, acts, stanzas.
Step 3
While reading, make the necessary extracts: the title of the work, the names of its parts (chapters, acts), various descriptions of nature, lyrical digressions, the author's reasoning.
Step 4
Determine what type of plan you will use: thesis, name, question, plan-scheme.
Step 5
Also, decide on the type of plan, it can be: simple (concise), complex (expanded), quotation.
Step 6
Identify the exposition of the work (in dramatic works, this is a list of characters and an indication of the place of action).
Step 7
Determine if the book has a prologue and an epilogue.
Step 8
Find the starting point of the piece.
Step 9
Establish the main part of the novel (story, story, etc.), i.e. development of action.
Step 10
Identify the climax.
Step 11
Determine the denouement of the book.
Step 12
Compare the plot and composition of the work.
Step 13
Decide who are the main characters and who are the minor ones.
Step 14
Determine how the author's attitude towards the characters changes in the development of the plot, and for this:
- write out quotes from the text that reveal the speech characteristics of the characters;
- Analyze quotations in the text that reveal the linguistic features of the author's narration;
- Determine how the attitude of the protagonist towards other main and secondary characters changes in the development of the plot;
- Compare the relationship between the rest of the main and secondary characters, and how they change in the development of the plot.
Step 15
Come up with a title for each part of the plot, guided by the author's position in relation to the characters, their speech characteristics, or in accordance with the heading of the work.
Step 16
Make an initial draft of the plan, leaving several lines of space or wide margins between the paragraphs on the page.
Step 17
Reread the plan.
Step 18
Make the necessary corrections to the margins of the page or the intervals left between the paragraphs of the plan.
Step 19
Rewrite the plan as amended.
Step 20
Use the final version of the plan when analyzing the work or when re-reading it, taking notes, etc.
