A Stylistic Analysis of Lexical, Cohesion and Context Features of the Literary Styles in the Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' by Roald Dahl and 'The Little Lantern' by Ghassan Kanafani: A Contrastive Study

The most popular field in literary studies is stylistics. Its goal to discover the language use and meaning patterns seen writings demonstrate formal elements' functional value such texts. This study an attempt discuss linguistic stylistic features of two famous English Arabic children's short stories 20th century by writers. story being Roald Dahl's Wonderful Story Henry Sugar, story: Little Lantern Ghassan Kanafani. Due their differences grammar syntax, belong separate families. paper's major compare contrast lexical, contextual, coherence aspects used stories. based on a examination works, one other English. writer both texts employs context, cohesion depict social cultural contexts respective variety languages how its users take advantage it known as 'stylistics'. definition unquestionably broad enough include everyone who uses word 'stylistics' would wish be included. To examine this study, Short Leech (2007) approach will used. researcher explains devices utilized each text demonstrates reasons for doing so.