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ENG 455 Stylistics

400 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

ENG 455 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature, scope and principles of stylistics
  2. Style, choice and deviation
  3. Levels of linguistic description in stylistic analysis
  4. Phonological and graphological features of style
  5. Lexical and syntactic patterning
  6. Figures of speech and rhetorical devices
  7. Foregrounding and parallelism
  8. Stylistic analysis of poetry
  9. Stylistic analysis of prose and drama
  10. Approaches to literary and non-literary style

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Nature, scope and principles of stylistics

The topic introduces stylistics as the systematic study of style in language, especially how linguistic choices create meaning and effects in texts. For examination purposes, you must master what stylistics is, the areas it covers, and the main principles guiding stylistic analysis so that you can explain both the method and the purpose of studying style.

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