THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STYLISTIC DEVICES IN LITERARY WORKS (NOAH GORDON’S “THE PHYSICIAN”)

Abstract

Stylistics is a branch of applied linguistics concerned with the study of style in texts, especially, but not exclusively, in literary works. Also called literary linguistics, stylistics focuses on the figures, tropes, and other rhetorical devices used to provide variety and a distinctness to someone's writing. It's linguistic analysis plus literary criticism.