stylistics
/staɪˈlɪstɪks/
noun
- The study of style in language, especially in literature, focusing on word choice, sentence structure, and rhetorical devices.
- The professor's research in stylistics examines the use of metaphor in modern novels.
- She took a course in stylistics to better understand poetic language.
- Stylistics helps analyze how an author's word choices affect the reader.