1. The Origin

Question 1

What’s idiolect?

Answer 1

The language of one individual. In other words, the individual use of language.

Question 2

What couldn’t be reached solely by syntax or semantics?

Answer 2

Analysis according to the whole text which could be reached by stylistics.

Question 3

What is studied in Rhetoric?

Answer 3

The relation between style and effect is asserted.

Question 4

Linguistic (1)__ forms linguistic (2)__.

Answer 4

(1) form
(2) style

Question 5

How an individual uses a language in certain situations (doctor’s speech ≠ teacher’s speech) is studied in (1)___.

Answer 5

(1) register

Question 6

What is Stylistics?

Answer 6

An adornment of thought.

Question 7

What does Stylistics and its theories fall under and why?

Answer 7

It falls under Pragmatics since:
How does style cause? = How thoughts are connected? (studies by Pragmatics)

Question 8

Who stated that stylistics is the physiognomy of the mind and it always conveys the personality of the writer?

Answer 8

Arthur Shopenhauer.

Question 9

Define Stylistics during the Renaissance period.

Answer 9

The adornment of thought.

Question 10

What’s register?

Answer 10

How an individual uses a language in certain situations (doctor’s register ≠ teacher’s register)

Question 11

What’s etymology for Stylistics? What does it mean? Give a full description.

Answer 11

lat. “stylus” - a sharp stick with a sharp end on and and flat on the other. It was used by Romans for writing on wax tablets.

Question 12

Can style vary? Bring examples.

Answer 12

Yes, it can. Examples: “Victorian style”, “Epistolary style”, “Early eighteen-century style”, etc.

Question 13

Arthur Shopenhauer defines stylistics the following way: (1)___.

Answer 13

(1) It’s the physiognomy of the mind and it always conveys the personality of the writer.

Question 14

Why are literature seminars important?

Answer 14

In order to see how stylistic devices work and share the effect they had on us to delve deeper into the topic of the relation between stylistics and effect.

Question 15

Who developed the meaning the stylistics is known today?

Answer 15

Charles Bally and Leo Spitzer.

Question 16

Define effect.

Answer 16

1. It’s subjective and is based on individual’s experience;
2. It’s revealed through the introspection in order to define the effect the stylistic devices have;

Question 17

Charles Bally and Leo Spitzer define stylistics as the result from: (1)___.

Answer 17

(1) a variety of words choices existing

Question 18

The relation between style and effect is asserted in (1)__.

Answer 18

(1) rhetoric

Question 19

The well-known people who studied Stylistics are (1)___.

Answer 19

(1) Aristotle, Cicero, Demetrius, Quantilian.

Question 20

Tell me about the relation between the stylistic and effect?

Answer 20

1. The effect is subjective and is based on individual’s experience and is revealed through the introspection in order to define the effect the stylistic devices have;