course outline

DE LA SALLE LIPA

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ARTS & SCIENCES

Education Department

2^nd Semester SY 2010 – 2011

Introduction to Stylistics

COURSE CREDIT:       3

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This course focuses on developing the student’s ability to analyse a poem, short story, novel and other authentic texts using stylistic features.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:   

          This course is designed to help the students:

• To introduce the most central concepts and analytical frameworks in Stylistics;
• To show how stylistic analysis can be used to explain the relationship between linguistic choices on the one hand and meanings/effects in readers' minds on the other;
• Sharpen ones awareness of how language works in literary text and author’s style in writing.
• To enable students to carry out detailed and systematic stylistic analyses of a variety of literary texts
• Articulate an inward perception of the workings of a language and situate verbal technique of particular poems, short stories, extracts from novels, advertisements and plays.

Learning Plan

     I.         What is style?

o   What stylistics is all about, and is there a literary variety of language?

o   Deviation, parallelism and foregrounding 1

o   Deviation, parallelism and foregrounding 2

o   Figurative language

o   The cognitive theory of metaphor

o   Plot and fictional worlds 1

o   Plot and fictional worlds 2

   II.        Stylistic Writing

*        Sentence Style

o   Combining Sentence

o   Sentence Variety

o   Varying Sentence length

o   Eliminating unnecessary be verbs

o   Introducing quotations

o   Fresh and precise adjectives

 III.        Stylistic Devices (Rhetorical Devices, Figures of  Speech)

A. Alliteration

B. Allusion

C. Anaphora

D. Antithesis

E. Hyperbole

F.  Hyphopora

G.  Litotes

H.  Metaphor

I. Metonymy

J. Points of View

K. Onomatopoeia

L. Paralyse

M. Parenthesis

O. Rhetorical Question

P. Simile

Q. Synecdoche

R. Understatement

 IV.        Stylistic analysis

o   Sample stylistic analysis of poem

o   Sample stylistic analysis of short story

o   Sample stylistic analysis of novel

o   Sample stylistic analysis of authentic texts

*        Magazine

*        Newspaper

*        Song

*        Speeches

*        Brochures

Sources:          http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/undergrad/modules/ling210.htm

                                http://stylisticwriting.wordpress.com/