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    Stylistic Analysis of the Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears Samron Adane
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-05) Adane, Samron; Matthews, Berhanu (Ph D)
    The aim of this study is to make a stylistic analysis of a novel entitled The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu using the analytic model developed by Leech and Short (1981) as the major approach. To facilitate this, the study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter mainly involves the background of the study, the statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions and the methodology of the study. The second chapter is mainly discusses review of related literature and theoretical framework. Chapter three is the analysis part in which selected chapters from the novel are analyzed and chapter four will be the conclusion where it summarizes the major findings. Most MA theses that have used stylistic analysis are based on certain poem or short stories and much work has not been done applying stylistic analysis to novels, according to the observation made. Thus, this paper tries to apply stylistic analysis on a novel and shows how one can better understand writer’s use of different literary elements and how meanings are constructed from a specific novel. To give some of the major findings of this study, the writer uses more nouns as compared to other word classes, i.e. adjectives, verbs and adverbs. When we see major figures of speech used, the writer uses repetition and parallelism as the major grammatical and lexical schemes. With regard to the phonological schemes, alliteration is widely used creating a consonant sound effect. Alliterative proper nouns are also use to help the reader not to easily forget the names of the some characters. When we see the use of tropes, almost all of the rhetorical devices that are used are similes.