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occupies a great place in world literature.
I`d like to begin with formulating the main idea of the extract
The type of narration
The prevailing mood of the extract
The story is written in a tone.
Talking about plot structure, the extract can be divided into logical parts.
Lexical peculiarities
The extract contains a lot of monosemantic (tree, day) and polysemantic
(vision, prosperity, engagement ) words;
Set phrases e.g. (In plainer words,)
The extract contains following proper names: Forsytes, Jolyon Forsyte in
Stanhope Gate,
From the point of word structure, there are simple (day, family, see ),
derived (delightful, instinctive ), compound (efflorescence, , granddaughter),
words. Compound –derived (drawing-room)
The lexico/semantic group of words about family (granddaughter, son
family, aunt ) is presented.
Grammatical peculiarities
From the morphological point of view, there is usage of present perfect
(Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that
charming and instructive sight--an upper middle-class family in full plumage.)
tenses. Present Perfect continuous (He has been admitted to a vision of the dim
roads of social progress, ) Present simple He is like one who,Past simple (when a
Forsyte died) Passive voice is also presented (When a Forsyte was engaged,
married, or born,). Grammatical constructions such as possessive case (Jolyon's
granddaughter, brother Timothy's green drawing-room ), degrees of comparison
(an upper middle-class family, the highest), infinitive (to to celebrate) and
gerundial (flourishing, personifying) constructions, sequence of tenses (He is like
one who, having watched a tree grow from its planting--a paragon of tenacity,
insulation, and success, amidst the deaths of a hundred other plants less fibrous,
sappy, and persistent--one day will see it flourishing with bland, full foliage, in an
almost repugnant prosperity, at the summit of its efflorescence.) are provided. In
the extract, there are such phrasal verbs:. Modal verb–. might have seen There are
definite (the dim roads) and indefinite (a gathering) articles.
From the syntactic point of view, the extract contains declarative type of
sentences. Talking about the structure of the sentences, compound-complex (Those
privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming
and instructive sight--an upper middle-class family in full plumage.).
Stylistic peculiarities
My next observation concerns phono-graphical features of the extract. I`d
like to draw your attention to the presence of
 alliteration (planting--a paragon; full foliage, feathers and frocks, did not
die; death)
assonance (highly vitalized, groomed look,)

Taking into consideration lexical stylistic devices of the extract, there are
presented following epithets: the dim roads, repugnant prosperity, buff
waistcoats, light blue vase green drawing-room, calm old face
These epithets daze the emotional force they carry.
The author uses quotation marks to  to emphasize irony (old Jolyon's
'home') to achieve ironical effect
To make the description more vivid the auther employs Personification (In the
bravery of light gloves, buff waistcoats, feathers and frocks,)
Irony (old Jolyon's 'home')
Oxymoron (mysterious concrete tenacity)
This device colours the utterance emotionally.
The writer appeals to our emotions and imagination by the usage of syntactical
stylistic devices:
Antithesis (the rise and fall of nations)
Climax (a more than ordinarily groomed look, an alert, inquisitive assurance,
a brilliant respectability,)
Enumeration (. In the bravery of light gloves, buff waistcoats, feathers and
frocks, the family were present, even Aunt Ann,) (a paragon of tenacity, insulation,
and success,)
Parenthesis (But whosoever of these favoured persons has possessed the gift
of psychological analysis (a talent without monetary value and properly ignored by
the Forsytes),) (In plainer words, he has gleaned from a gathering of this family--
no branch of which had a liking for the other, between no three members of whom
existed anything worthy of the name of sympathy--evidence of that mysterious
concrete tenacity which renders a family so formidable a unit of society, so clear a
reproduction of society in miniature.)