Stylistic Devices in Different Literary Extracts: A Stylistic Study (Published)
This present study makes an attempt to define stylistic devices and explains how they function in different literary extracts. It also elucidates the nature of stylistic devices and the effects they produce on the readers and listeners. Stylistic devices are tools of language that are used by writers and authors to create beauty, uniqueness, and novelty in the language. The expressive means of a language refer to the arrangement of sentences, clauses, words, and the choice of words that not only convey the idea to the reader or listener, but simultaneously provoke the desired emotional reaction from him. They are inherent in a language and used in ordinary speech by any speaker or writer, irrespective of stylistic purposes and effects. But the expressive means of a language may be employed with a definite stylistic aim and function in view. In such cases they are deliberately selected and arranged so as to create a certain stylistic effect. Any expressive means may be used in this way for specific artistic purposes, and when so employed, it is described as a stylistic device. The stylistic devices may be considered as an artistic transformation of an ordinary language phenomenon. They are linguistic resources that are used and employed deliberately to fulfill a stylistic function. Utterances usually communicate certain ideas and may also produce definite effects or arouse an emotion in the reader or listener. The aim of this paper is to discuss some stylistic devices at the levels of phonology, syntax and semantics. The discussion is provided by definitions of stylistic devices, nature, functions and the special effects they produce in literary texts.
Keywords: Phonology, Semantics, Stylistic Devices, stylistic effects, stylistic functions, syntax
Retribution in Qur’anic Texts: A Stylistic Analysis (Published)
Divine retribution is both a teaching and a core-tenet in Islam. A large portion of Qur’anic texts come to embody the righteous judgment of the Almighty Allah, His gracious as well as wrath character. This paper is an attempt to pinpoint the stylistic devices and features of retribution in Qur’anic texts. It aims to identify the stylistic phonological, syntactic, and semantic devices of retribution in Qur’anic texts and find out the functions of each. Furthermore, it aims to explain the overall functions the Qur’anic texts of retribution perform and how the overall function of these texts and the functions of the utilized stylistic devices work as a unit to produce a stylistic interpretation to these texts. It is hypothesized that Qur’anic texts of retribution utilize specific stylistic phonological, syntactic, and semantic devices. Besides, it is hypothesized that the functions these devices perform fall in line with the overall functions the Qur’anic texts of retribution have. A model is developed to analyze the Qur’anic texts of retribution. The findings of the analysis validate the hypotheses mentioned above.
Keywords: Conative Function, Emotive Function, Qur'anic Texts, Referential Function, Retribution, Stylistic Devices