LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY: A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF GALLANT’S SELECTED SHORT STORIES
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This study's goal is to stylistically examine a few of Gallant's short stories.A limited number of researches are available on stylistic analysis of short stories and a few of them deal with Gallant’s works. Close reading and text-based analysis are used to analyze the short stories because the research is theoretical, analytical, and descriptive in nature. As a theoretical foundation for the analysis, Leech & Short's (2007) lexical categories, grammatical categories, figures of speech, context, and cohesion are used. This study demonstrates how compelling and fluidly detailed Gallant's chosen short stories are written. The study finds that she has an extra ordinary ability to get inside her character’s mind,and she provides ironic contrast between external events and their fragmented thoughts and confused emotions. Her setting and development of plot is unique and she is exceptionally wealthy in words usage.Through this analysis main stylistic features used by the writer are dealt with.This study is beneficial for academics who wish to do stylistic analyses of numerous literary works, particularly those who are interested in examining the works of Gallant.
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