Style and poetics

Question 1

Define stylistics

Answer 1

Relating linguistic facts (description) to meaning (interpretation) in an explicit way

Question 2

What are some stylistic features of poetry and prose and drama?

Answer 2

Poetry prose:

• Rhyme
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

Drama:

• Conversational features
• Sets, lighting and sound

Question 3

Define foregrounding

Answer 3

Creating unfamiliarity in a text that catches the readers attention, psychological effect caused by deviation and parallelism

Question 4

Define deviation

Answer 4

Where something differs from the norm

Mukarovsky

Question 5

Define parallelism

Answer 5

Where there is structural similarity or repetition of structure

Jakobson

Question 6

When does a deviation occur?

Answer 6

When we have a set of rules or expectations which are broken in some way

Question 7

What are some features of deviation?

Answer 7

Semantic - literal meaning doesn’t work so we look for figurative meaning

lexical
syntactic
graphological
phonological
morphological

Question 8

Define external and internal deviation

Answer 8

External: Deviates from norms of accepted language

Internal:

Deviates from the patterns established in the text

Works with parallelism