Dr Sohail Ansari

A man follows the religion of his close friend, so each of you should be very careful about whom he takes as a close friend. (Abu Dawud) Stylistics and Elements of Style in Literature by Richard Nordquist   Updated July 16, 2019 Stylistics is a branch of  applied linguistics  concerned with the study of style in texts, especially, but not exclusively, in literary works. Also called literary linguistics, stylistics focuses on the figures, tropes, and other rhetorical devices used to provide variety and a distinctness to someone's writing. It is linguistic analysis plus literary criticism. Assignment: Give examples of rhetorical devices. How stylistics can e literary criticism. According to Katie Wales in " A Dictionary of Stylistics ," the goal of "Most stylistics is not simply to describe the formal features of texts for their own sake, but in order to show their functional significance for the interpretation of the text; or in order to rel...