Stylistic Analysis of Doctor in the House

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Stylistic analysis of “Doctor in the House”. The passage under consideration is written by an English writer Richard Gordon. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon's twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical student's years of professional training. The text under consideration is a witty and humorous description of such a hard and important thing in students’ life as their final exams. The author shows us the condition of students before, during and after exams, therefore, the aim of the text is to describe the students’ feelings, emotions and preparations for them. At the beginning of the story the author describes the most significant event in the life of every medical student – the final examination. He shows the students’ feelings and preparations for them. Then the narrator depicts the written exam, after which the main hero and his friend discuss the original process of grading the papers at college. Further the author dwells on the oral examination, before which he characterizes different types of candidates’ behavior anticipating it. After that the narrator passes on to the description of the main character’s feelings and his depressed condition due to the fact, that he did not know whether he would get through or not. And then the hero imagines what would happen in the case he passes or fails. The story ends with the detailed description of the emotional state of the main character before the announcing of the results and then his success: he passes the exam and “goes upstairs”. Speaking about the general definition of the text, it’s possible to say that the text is written in the 1st person narrative. The story is interlaced with the great number of descriptive passages and a few dialogues of the personages. The author makes use of the long and complicated sentences as well as the short and simple ones. An account of

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