Powerpoint presentation on Literary Stylistics.pptx

This presentation introduces literary stylistics as an approach to analyzing literature through the lens of language. It explores how linguistic elements—such as diction, syntax, figures of speech, sound patterns, and narrative techniques—shape meaning, style, and readers’ interpretations. Designed for literature and language students, the presentation highlights the connection between linguistics and literary analysis, showing how stylistics deepens understanding of texts.

1. ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis Literary Poetry Stylistics

2. A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme. A three-line Japanese poem with a 5-7-5 syllabic pattern. A lyrical poem that praises a subject. A mournful poem lamenting the dead. A long narrative poem about heroic deeds. Poetry without a strict meter or rhyme. ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

3. Which poet is known for writing in free verse and using cataloging techniques? Who is the poet famous for using dashes and unconventional punctuation in her works? Which English poet is best known for his use of iambic pentameter in sonnets and plays? ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

4. What figure of speech is used in the phrase “The trees danced in the wind”? What is the term for the emotional or cultural meaning of a word beyond its literal definition? What poetic device involves a direct comparison without using “like” or “as”? ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

5. What is the term for the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry? What type of poetry has no fixed meter or rhyme scheme? In which meter is Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 written? ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

6. What is the name of the metrical foot with an unstressed-stressed pattern (da-DUM)? What metrical foot consists of two stressed syllables (DUM-DUM)? Which type of foot follows the pattern stressed-unstressed-unstressed? ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

7. The meters with two-syllable feet are: IAMB (x /) - That time of year thou mayst in me be hold TROCHEE (/ x): Tell me not in mourn ful num bers SPONDEE (/ /): Break, break, break / On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! Meters with three-syllable feet are: ANAPEST (x x /): And the sound of a voice that is still DACTYL (/ x x): This is the for est pri me val, the mur muring pines and the hem lock ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

8. Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer , 2 feet is a dimeter , and so on-- trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and octameter (8). The number of syllables in a line varies therefore according to the meter. ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

9. That time of year thou mayst in me behold ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

10. That time of year thou mayst in me behold ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis That time | of year | thou mayst | in me | be hold Iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables)

11. Tell me not in mournful numbers ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

12. Tell me not in mournful numbers ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis Tell me | not in | mourn ful | num bers trochaic tetrameter (4 trochees, 8 syllables)

13. And the sound of a voice that is still ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

14. And the sound of a voice that is still ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis And the sound | of a voice | that is still trochaic tetrameter (4 trochees, 8 syllables)

15. This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

16. This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis This is the | for est pri | me val, the | mur muring | pine and the | hem locks dactylic hexameter (6 dactyls, 17 syllables; a trochee replaces the last dactyl)

17. change the usual meaning of words to convey a vivid picture or description. I. LITERARY TROPES ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis change word order, patterns, syntax, sounds or letters. II. LITERARY SCHEME

18. change the usual meaning of words to convey a vivid picture or description. I. LITERARY TROPES ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

19. A rhetorical term for coyness: a form of irony in which a person feigns a lack of interest in something that he or she actually desires. Example: "How kind, but you need it more than me” and The Fox and the Grapes (fox’s dismissal of grapes) Accismus ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

20. To exhort people to do something presumably for their benefit. Example: "Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits." - (William Hazlitt) 2. Adhortatio ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

21. To exhort people to do something presumably for their benefit. Example: "Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits." - (William Hazlitt) 2. Adhortatio ELECT 3 Stylistics and Discourse Analysis