Stylistics In About A Boy By Nick Hornby

A writer's style is the thing that isolates his or her composed work and makes it stand-out. The style is the means by which forming is spruced up (or down) to fit the specific setting, reason, or gathering of spectators. Word choice, sentence commonality, and the creator's voice — all add to the style of a touch of

Linguistic scholars tend to conduct functional and pragmatic studies to interpret Wilde’s fairy tales. They find that the characters and story plot can be revealed through transitivity processes, the mood and modality system and the thematic structure. Also, there are scholars employing cooperative principle to analyze the dialogues in Wilde’s stories and find that “the distribution of the turns and turn-taking strategies” can be used to explain Wilde’s characterization processes (Cai, 2012, p. 79). In addition, linguists also analyze the diction in Wilde’s stories based on corpus. For example, a scholar studies Wilde’s nine fairy tales by analyzing the type, degree and metaphors of the color-words written by Wilde, and conclude how the color-related words contribute to the aestheticism of Wilde’s fairy tales (Xu, 2009, p.

There are so many possibilities of styles an author could use in their book. The styles in this essay will consist of theme, author’s purpose, and tone. The fiction source is called ¨ The Mystery Stallion” by Siamon, S. It is about a girl named Sophie and her sister Liv who go to Arizona for a vacation to visit their grandparents. The nonfiction source is called ¨American Dream Horses¨Stabenfeltd Inc. It is an informative book about horses. Every two pages is about a different species of horse. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the different writing styles author’s use for theme, author’s purpose, and tone.

Ernest Hemingway’s minimalist writing indicates flexibility in using relevant phrases shown in his book, “A Farewell to Arms” in which he efficiently makes use of each explanatory detail in the plot. A text that differs with Hemingway’s writing is of John Steinbeck, who writes in a much more complex manner, making the reader notice informative details, shown in “The Grapes of Wrath.” Steinbeck makes sure the minute details are crucial yet limited, both Steinbeck and Hemingway successfully deliver their stories, however they adopt practices that is proficient to their target readers and their writing ability. Steinbeck aims attention at mid intervals which produce a clear understanding of detail and how his writing defines this, whereas Hemingway

An author’s writing style helps to highlight the details and emotions that are intended for the reader. This is the reason for the various styles of writing found in our society today. The drastic differences in style and focus points becomes quite apparent when comparing two pieces of literature written in differing styles. These stylistic differences may include the authors word choice , attention to finite details, and the perspective the literature is told from. My style of writing on the Canadian Prairie is directed towards an ‘all-seeing’ social realism perspective which uses elaborate, detailed descriptions of scenery; as opposed to “The Blue Kimono” where Callaghan writes in a very concise dialogue heavy form concentrated on the rapid progression of the plot in a modern realism form.

Authors in both modern and gothic literature use various literary devices, such as italics, and conventions of the genres to display their character’s mental states to allow readers to sympathize and understand them on a deeper level. The gothic genre uses language that provokes fear and anxiety in the reader, often by using elements that cannot be explained. There is a strong link between beauty and fear which the settings mimic. Modernism favours juxtapositions and uses senses of fragmentation and rupture. There is usually no frame of reference which allows the reader to construct the meaning. Modern literature is highly experimental in regards to punctuation, grammar, plot, and the stream of consciousness; it can include a rejection of traditional

I have a deep respect for the ways in which the phonetics, rhetorical devices and phraseology within a text are used to achieve a specific purpose. I relish discussions and debates with peers on the messages an author is attempting to convey. It is because of this subject that i am able to adopt various approaches to literature such as the feminist, formalist and marxist perspectives through observing the allocation and use of speech within a novel.

Style: The author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects

The author's writing style is very formal. He uses long and elaborate sentences filled with commas. The use of words such as, "edifice" and ignominy" makes the story seem more elegant than a story about a woman who has committed adultery. The author is very descriptive in his sentences, such as,

A writer makes use of language according to his own aesthetics and expressive needs. The characteristics of the language of literature have attracted the attention of scholars of linguistics and they have studied this special variety of language under the discipline called ‘stylistics’. Stylistics has developed as an important area of applied linguistics which investigates and describes the language in literature at various level of linguistics, such as phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Stylistics has greatly contributed to the understanding of literature and has helped literary criticism in many

In Nick Hornby’s novel, About a Boy, Will Freeman is one of the main characters that went through a significant change throughout the novel. In the beginning, Will Freeman is a selfish and arrogant character. He enjoys the lavish life of a wealthy bachelor; he does not work and lives by himself. Then, Will Freeman meets Marcus, a very quirky twelve-year-old boy. Despite their differences, Will and Marcus are able to develop a bond. As the plot goes on, Will starts to demonstrate some character development; he starts to care for others and become self-conscious about his choices and actions. In his novel, About a Boy, Nick Hornby illustrates a character development through Will Freeman having no purpose in life to finding one.

Style – the way the writer uses the language. It reflects the writer’s personality. The author’s style includes the level of formality, word choice, sentence construction, methods of organization etc.

The objective of the study is to know how Suzanne Collins in “The Hunger Games” and Thomas Hardy in “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” are describing their heroines. Through stylistics which is the study of the style and through the corpus linguistics which gives frequencies proving that the two writers are not using the same adjectives, nouns and verbs to describe their protagonists, although the two protagonists are poor suffering women but Suzanne describes her heroine using adjectives, nouns and verbs showing its strong personality unlike Thomas who used adjective, nouns and verbs describing his weak and naive heroine.

In a story, the particular way a character uses language sheds light on her understanding of herself and the world around her because language is the vessel for meaning making and the construction of reality. In literature, stylistics (Simpson 2004, Jeffries 2010) provides the tools for an analysis of language by investigating where the literary effects stem from. One of the tools is transitivity (Halliday 1985, 2004) which studies the choice of verbs. Since transitivity has

There is no doubt in the dictum what French critic Buffon asserted long ago ‘l style est l home meme’ (‘style is the man himself ’). Though the dictum became a cliche in the arena of twenty-first century English studies, yet the dictum has its resonance in Upmanyu Chatterjee. Generally the students of literature begin their respective English studies at the graduate and post-graduate levels with Francis Bacon who happens to be the most economical writer till now (in respect of word-placement and syntactical pattern) in English literature.