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Stylistic Analysis Of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half Of The Yellow Sun
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According to Ezugu:
Figures of speech, sometimes called “rhetoricalâ€
figures are expressions, phrases or words used to convey more than their
ordinary literal meaning. These figures, if properly used, not only
enrich but strengthen and give life to our writing.
Ezugu (2011)
Some of the features used in a achieving style include:
– Diction, figurative usage and various sentence structures such as:
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Parenthetical Expressions: These are words, clauses or even another
sentence inserted at the middle or end of a sentence such as after
thoughts.
– Compound Sentence: A compound sentence is one which
consists of three or more simple sentences joined together by a
co-ordinating conjunction or semi – colon.
– Complex Sentence: A complex sentence consists of two parts. The main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
– Compound complex sentence: This consists of two or more main clauses and one or more subordinate clause.
Other features of style include:
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Graphology: The analysis of hand writing to interpret character and
personality. Aspects of which are â€Italics, Bold sentence†and
capitalizationâ€.
– Code Switching: A system of switching from one linguistic code to another.
– Code – Mixing: A systematic way of mixing two or more linguistics codes in an utterance or writing.
– Transliteration: This is the literal translation of the syntatical structure of a language into another language
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Although many works have been done on stylistics, little work has been done on style used in Chimamanda Adichie‟s
Half
of a yellow sun which was published in 2006. Most of the works done
were based on general analysis of how her works reflect the realities of
the society. To the knowledge of this researcher, no work has been done
on the stylistic analysis of the devices used in her work, hence, the
decision of the researcher to investigate the style of the author in
this her second widely acclaimed novel Half of A yellow Sun.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
This
study aims at an identification of the predominant stylistic devices
used in Chimamanda Adichie‟s Half Of A Yellow Sun and the effect these
devices have in the over all evaluation of the novel.
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