ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the various plans that can be used to structure argumentation in a work of analysis: comparative (comparison of features), syllogistic (the conclusion is reached by means of the interaction of premises), analytic (point-by-point methodical analysis), and dialectic plans (the analytic features are opposed and then transcended). In particular, the chapter presents the various kinds of comparative analysis in literature: (1) intratextual comparison, (2) intertextual comparison, (3) architextual comparison (between a text and its genre), (4) intergeneric comparison (between two genres), (5) non-generic typological comparison (e.g., comparison between the types of love in a text and a general typology of love), and (6) text/world comparison (e.g., between the society in a text and real society). The chapter also discusses two kinds of analysis, together with their two associated plans, with regard to the sequence in which they address elements of the text: linear analysis advances through the analyzed text, word by word, verse by verse, or paragraph by paragraph; tabular analysis shifts its attention freely throughout the analyzed text.
