Stylistic Analysis

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 399.

Stylistics solves a wide scope of issues including (functional) styles, expressive means and devices to articulate individual manners of speech, different emotions, thoughts and their relations through language. Writers may apply various styles to personalize the world created, express their relationship with the fictional world, make the imaginary world real and guide the reader in judging the characters, setting and events. There five levels of styles of stylistics that can be used in the text:

1. Functional level (literary, neutral, colloquial style, ironic styles).

2. Phono-graphical level (italics, contractions, interrogative, sentences, exclamatory sentences).

3. Lexico-semantical (simile, metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, antithesis, irony, allusion, colloquial words, slang, vulgar words, foreign words).

4. Morphological level (articles infinitive, gerund construction, gryphons, interjections, address

words that show the emotional states of the characters).

5. Syntactical level (parallel construction, detachment, elliptical sentences, repetition, inversion).

When a writer resorts to the language of every day life especially typical in dialogues, we call this style colloquial. When a writer resorts to the language which is not widely used in everyday life and isn't typical of spoken English because it's "too correct" we call this style bookish. When there are many scientific words in a story we speak about a scientific style. When there are words typical of this or that profession we speak about professional words in a story. In the Glossary Literary Terms, there are a lot of stylistic device (definitions and examples) that will definitely contribute to the successful stylistic analysis.