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Stylistic Analysis Of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half Of The Yellow Sun
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1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
This
study will enable readers identify the predominant stylistic devices
used by Chimamanda Adichie in her novel Half Of A Yellow Sun as well as
the effect achieved by the use of these devices.
The study will, in addition, encourage writers to adopt the style of Chimamanda Adichie in their writing.
Finally, it will provide material for researchers in this field.
1.5 SCOPE OF STUDY
This
investigation is limited to an analysis of the predominant stylistic
devices employed in Chimamanda Adichie‟s novel Half Of A Yellow Sun .
The novel comprises four parts namely: PART ONE: The Early Sixties; PART
TWO: The Late Sixties; Part Three: The Early Sixties‟ PART FOUR: The
late sixties. These four parts are made up of a total number of the
thirty seven (37) chapters but the researcher has selected twenty four
chapters for analysis.
The analysis is restricted to such stylistic
devices as compound sentences; compound complex sentences, italics, code
– mixing, parenthetical expression and transliteration which the
researcher encountered several times in the course of reading the novel.
1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The
method used in this investigation was intensive study of related
materials from the library and close textual analysis of the novel Half
Of A Yellow Sun using quantitative anaysis. Quantitative analysis
entails identifying counting and writing down the frequency of
occurrence of each of the identified stylistic devices covered in the
scope of study.
Furthermore out of the thirty seven chapters that
make up the novel, twenty four chapters are selected by random sampling.
All the chapters in parts one and part three respectively of the novel
are selected since they contain six chapters each but in part two and
part four, six chapters are selected from each part by simple random
sampling since they contain more than six chapters each.
Part two contains twelve chapters while part four contains thirteen chapters.
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