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Which of the following is NOT one of the three basic forms of literature?

  • Drama
  • Prose
  • Science fiction (correct)
  • Poetry

What distinguishes a round character from a flat character?

  • Flat characters are always the main protagonists.
  • Round characters display complexity in thoughts and actions. (correct)
  • Round characters are simpler in thoughts and actions.
  • Flat characters can change throughout the story.

Which element of prose fiction refers to the time and place where the story occurs?

  • Conflict
  • Setting (correct)
  • Characterization
  • Theme

What is an example of prose fiction?

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Which of the following elements is NOT considered part of prose fiction?

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What does stylistics primarily focus on?

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What term is used to describe stylistics that focuses on non-literary texts?

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Expressive stylistics implies a view of style as what?

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What essential element distinguishes tragedy from other forms of literature?

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Radical Stylistics is best described as concerned with which of the following?

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According to Aristotle, which factor is NOT crucial for a story to be considered a tragedy?

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What aspect of language does stylistics study?

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What is one of the main purposes of comedy in dramatic presentations?

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Burton's 1980 discourse model focuses primarily on which type of texts?

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What does the term 'idiolect' refer to in the context of stylistics?

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What does the term 'tragic flaw' refer to in relation to tragedy?

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Which of the following is an example of the application of stylistics in education?

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Which playwright is noted for popularizing the tragicomic subgenre in drama?

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What characteristic of a comic play sets it apart from a tragedy?

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What approach is important for analyzing drama meaningfully, particularly focusing on its actions?

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Intertextuality in literature refers to what phenomenon?

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What does the theme in a sentence indicate?

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Which of the following statements is true regarding the active and passive voice?

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How does the Extended Standard Theory (EST) differ from Chomsky's Aspects model?

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What is the significance of understanding grammatical units in stylistic analysis?

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In what context is sentence description likely more productive?

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What should one be familiar with when studying different texts?

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Which of the following describes the rhemic component of a sentence?

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Which grammatical unit is considered relevant for syntactic level stylistic analysis?

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What is one of the primary goals of stylistics?

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How does stylistics induce appreciation of discourses?

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Which type of stylistics focuses on linguistic features of a text?

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What do linguistic stylistic analysts pay attention to in a text?

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What can be said about an author's style in stylistics?

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What aspect of language does the line 'But tomorrow cannot be consoled' primarily illustrate?

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What aspect does linguistic stylistics NOT focus on?

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What is the syntactic pattern of the sentence 'Home he went'?

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Which of the following best describes phonology in poetry?

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What is a characteristic of literary stylistics?

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What does the term 'artistic principles' refer to in stylistics?

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What function does alliteration serve in poetry, as exemplified by Dasylva’s work?

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What does graphology refer to in the context of poetry?

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In the context of the sentence structure, what does deviation typically aim to achieve?

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Which of the following is NOT a level of analysis mentioned in the content?

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What effect does using 'tomorrow' as an animate concept in the sentence have?

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Denotation

The literal meaning of a word, without any emotional associations.

Connotation

The emotional or suggested meaning of a word, beyond its literal definition.

Syntactic Deviation

A technique in poetry that involves a change in the expected word order, often to emphasize a specific word or idea.

Phonology

The study of how sounds are organized and used in language, especially in poetry.

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Alliteration

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.

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Morphology

The study of how words are formed and structured, including their meanings and relationships.

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Graphology

The study of the visual appearance of text, including the arrangement of words, spacing, and typography.

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Lexico-semantic Level

The arrangement of words based on their meanings, especially in poetry.

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What is Stylistics?

The study of how language features create meaning and effects in texts.

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How does Stylistics analyze texts?

Identifying the unique linguistic features that characterize a writer, speaker, period, genre, or a specific group.

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What are the benefits of studying Stylistics?

Enhancing appreciation of texts by uncovering the meaning and beauty behind authorial choices.

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How does Stylistics reveal context?

Examining how an author's language use reflects social, cultural, and ideological influences.

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What is Linguistic Stylistics?

The study of linguistic features of a text, such as grammar, vocabulary, and sound.

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What is the goal of Linguistic Stylistics?

Analyzes the linguistic features of a text to uncover the writer's artistic principles and stylistic choices.

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What is Literary Stylistics?

Examines the artistic and expressive elements of literature using stylistic analysis.

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How are Linguistic and Literary Stylistics related?

A stylistic approach that integrates both linguistic features and the artistic dimensions of literature.

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Stylistics

A subfield of linguistics that examines how language is used in specific situations, focusing on the features and patterns that make these uses distinct. It studies the choices made by individuals and groups when using language, aiming to understand the principles behind those choices.

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Literary Stylistics

A type of stylistic analysis that focuses on literary texts and uses linguistic models to understand the text's structure and meaning.

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Radical Stylistics

A branch of stylistic analysis that examines linguistic features that go beyond literary texts, analyzing different language varieties and how they construct reality and ideology.

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Expressive Stylistics

The idea that language choices reveal the writer's personality, soul, or individual style. It assumes that a writer's style uniquely represents their identity.

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Pedagogical Stylistics

An academic approach that incorporates stylistic analysis into the teaching of language and literature, benefiting both native and non-native speakers.

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General Stylistics

Refers to a kind of linguistic stylistics that primarily focuses on the analysis of different language registers (e.g., formal, informal) or varieties (e.g., dialects).

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Transitivity Model in Stylistics

A type of stylistic analysis that utilizes Halliday's transitivity model to examine how different choices of grammatical structure create different perspectives on the world and reflect different ideologies.

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Register

The distinct linguistic features of the language used in a particular situation or context, for example, using formal language in a job interview.

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What are the three basic forms of literature?

The three basic forms of literature are - Poetry, Prose, and Drama.

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Describe the basic features of each form of literature.

Poetry is known for its use of figurative language, rhythm, and rhyme. Prose is characterized by its natural flow and realistic dialogue. Drama involves dialogue and stage directions to tell a story.

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Mention and explain some types of drama.

Some types of drama include tragedy, comedy, farce, and melodrama. Tragedy explores serious themes with often a sad ending. Comedy aims to evoke laughter through humorous situations. Farce is a type of comedy with exaggerated characters and situations. Melodrama is a dramatic piece with heightened emotions and suspense.

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Explain at least two types of poetry, giving appropriate examples.

A Ballad is a narrative poem that tells a story, often with a strong rhythm and rhyme scheme. A Sonnet is a popular form of lyrical poetry with 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme.

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What is Prose Fiction?

Prose fiction is written work that is not poetry and is considered the most accessible because of its natural language and story-telling style.

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Tragedy (Aristotelian View)

A story about a distinguished person's fall from grace due to character flaws and supernatural influence, causing pity and fear in the audience, leading to emotional catharsis.

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Comedy

A dramatic work that uses humor to entertain, ends happily, and often presents moral lessons or social commentary.

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Tragicomedy

A subgenre of drama that blends elements of both tragedy and comedy.

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Stylistic Analysis of Drama

The practice of analyzing the style of a dramatic work by considering the use of literary devices, language, and character interactions.

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Intertextuality

The concept that different genres of literature can borrow elements from each other, creating interesting hybrids.

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Pragmatic Stylistics

A form of literary analysis that focuses on the practical aspects of a dramatic work, examining how actions contribute to the plot and themes.

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Drama

A type of writing that uses narrative and dialogue to tell a story, often with a focus on characters and their actions.

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Poetry

A literary form that uses words arranged in metrical patterns and often employs figurative language.

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Rheme

The part of a sentence that provides new information, building on the given information.

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Theme

The part of a sentence that refers to already known information.

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Active Voice

The grammatical structure of a sentence in which the subject performs the action.

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Passive Voice

The grammatical structure of a sentence in which the subject receives the action.

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Clause

The fundamental building blocks of a sentence, consisting of a subject, verb, and often objects and complements.

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Nominal Group

A group of words that functions as a single unit in a sentence, typically centered around a noun.

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Syntactic Stylistic Analysis

The stylistic significance of grammatical units in a text, examining their impact on meaning and effect.

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Study Notes

Stylistics

  • Stylistics is the study of style, viewed through different approaches.
  • Stylistics is closely related to literary criticism and practical criticism.
  • Stylistics studies literary texts, focusing on text-centered analysis and the significance of formal features.
  • Stylistics uses linguistic models and terminology to relate literary effects to linguistic causes.
  • Stylistics has been influenced by Generative Grammar, discourse analysis, and pragmatics.
  • Stylistics also considers reader response and literary theory.
  • Stylistics can cover a broad scope, encompassing non-literary registers and sociolinguistics.
  • This is also known as pedagogical stylistics.
  • Stylistics is the study of the distinctive features of language as used in various literary, or non-literary, contexts.

Types of Stylistics

  • Linguistic stylistics explores linguistic features in a text.
  • Linguistic stylistics focuses on the selection of certain linguistic forms and features.
  • Linguistic stylistics accounts for the writer's choices and their effects on the text.
  • Literary stylistics explores the writers' intention and message encoded in a text.
  • Literary stylistics is concerned with how the writing style conveys a text's message.

Procedures of Stylistics

  • Reader-response stylistics focuses on the reader's interpretation and understanding of a text.
  • Affective stylistics examines the emotions and experiences readers have when interacting with literary texts. 
  • Pragmatic stylistics focuses on how language is used to achieve particular effects on the reader, including communicative acts, such as how the text's language is structured and how it is used to convey meaning or achieve a certain effect on the reader.
  • Pedagogical stylistics focuses on how stylistics is used in the classroom and in education.
  • Forensic stylistics is the application of stylistics to crime detection.

Levels of Linguistic Analysis

  • Phono-graphology: examines the phonological and graphological features of a text, such as sounds, spelling, punctuation, etc.
  • Lexico-semantic level: examines the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in a text.
  • Syntactic level: examines the structure of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in a text, including concepts like grammatical correctness or deviation from expected norms.

Cohesion and Coherence

  • Cohesion refers to the lexical and grammatical links that connect parts of a text.
  • Coherence refers to the text's overall meaning and sense. 
  • Cohesion and coherence are crucial for effective communication.
  • Different methods exist for achieving cohesion, including referential, conjunctive, elliptical, and substitutive cohesion, and lexical cohesion. 

Foregrounding

  • Foregrounding is the process of highlighting elements in order to make them more prominent.
  • Foregrounding typically involves deviation from what is expected.
  • This is a stylistic device used in literature, particularly poetry, to give the text particular depth or significance.
  • Foregrounding in a text entails making certain aspects, such as words, grammatical sentence structure, etc. stand out.

Basic Genres of Literature and their Elements

  • Prose fiction - encompasses novels, short stories, and novellas; it is a narrative form.
  • Poetry - is a creative use of language; forms include lyric, narrative, dramatic, mock-epic, etc.
  • Drama - is a form of literature designed for performance  with characters, plot, and conflict.

Elements of Prose

  • Characters and characterization are the agents of actions that express the narrative's ideas
  • Plot is the arrangement of events in a story for a particular effect.
  • Setting is the time and location of the story.
  • Theme is the work's core message or ideas.
  • Point of view is the perspective from which the characters are presented.
  • Conflict is the tension or struggle within or between characters.
  • Language refers to the way characters use words, impacting the way the writing is perceived.

Elements of Poetry

  •  Describing the nature of poetry as a method of expression.
  •  Categorizing poetry through types, age, and regions. 
  • Examining the specific features of poetry as a form of literature.
  •  Identifying different forms of poetry (lyric, mock-epic, ballads, etc).
  •  Exploring persona in poetry.
  •  Discussing the importance of imagery in poetry.
  •  Examining the different types of sound patterns in poems.
  •  Discussing sound effects in poetry.

Elements of Drama

  • Plot in drama; its structure, including chronological or dislocated events. 
  • Theme; the message or ideas of the drama. 
  • Conflict; the tension or struggle between characters. 
  • Characterization; the formation of characters.
  • Language; the exchange of ideas and information between characters.
  • Setting; where the events of the play take place both temporally and geographically, including the social context
  • Different types of drama; tragedy, comedy, farce, etc.
  • Terms associated with drama; such as conflict, protagonist, antagonist
  • Elements of the play; roles of the characters, director, producer, etc

The Language of Literature

  • The language of literature is not a distinct variety, unlike other genres of literature.
  • Literature uses elements from everyday language, but in a more organized way.
  • Stylistic techniques like foregrounding, unusual word choice, or special imagery create a “different” effect

The Language of Poetry

  • Poetry's language is special and has a unique, figurative quality that other forms of literature usually lack
  • This is a distinctive use of language in poetry to communicate intensely and powerfully.
  • There are distinct forms of poetry that can be identified and studied.
  • Devices like imagery, rhyme schemes, and figurative language are employed to create special effects.

A Sample Stylistic Analysis of a Poem

  •  Analysis of specific poetic devices and their impact.
  •  Identifying significant features in a particular poem (sound patterns, imagery, syntax, diction, etc).
  •  Example of a possible stylistic analysis of a poem, showing how those elements create certain effects.

Elements of Registers

  • Register is a variety of language used in particular situations (related to topic, social context, participants, mode of communication)
  • The major determinants of register are field, tenor, and mode.

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