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The present study is an analysis of text development to 16 chapters (138 pages) of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. This is done by identifying the patterns of thematic progression. Danes' model is selected and modified, i.e. four patterns are found: simple linear, constant, splitting, and derived hyperthem; and three other patterns are proposed by the researcher himself, namely, linear-constant, constant -linear, and elliptic. It is found that these patterns are used relatively different, with over use of constant and elliptic progressions. This is due to the focus on repetition as a stylistic device. Identical rewording (with co-referentiality and word-class changes), synonymy, and possessive relationships are found the more usable connecting relationships between themes, or themes and rhemes.
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