THE BELLES-LETTRES STYLE

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LITERARY LANGUAGE

• Less repetitious
• More dramatic
• Naturalistic
• Not spontaneous

SUBSTYLES

• The language of poetry
• Emotive prose
• The language of drama

FUNCTION

The Purpose of BL style is to
Suggest a possible interpretation of the phenomena of life by forcing the reader to see the viewpoint of the writer.

FEATURES

• Imaginery
• Diversity of word meanings
• Author's vision and individuality
• Peculiar colloquial language
• Special stylistic devices

LANGUAGE OF POETRY

• Orderly form
• Rhythmic and phonetic arrangement
• Syntactical and semantic peculiarities

EMOTIVE PROSE

• Combination of spoken and written language
• Monologue-writer, dialogue-characters
• Elements from other styles

SYNTACTICAL DESIGNS

• Detached constructions
• Unexpected ways of combining sentences
• Gap-sentence link and other modern patterns

DRAMA

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FEATURES

• Redundancy of information
• Dialogue form
• Norms of language of the given period

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