A Stylistic Appraisal of Ayi Kwei Armahas The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born

Dr. Acheoah John Emike

A Stylistic Appraisal of Ayi Kwei Armahas The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born

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Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. A fiction which ponders on the corruption that pervades Ghana even after independence, the novel reveals interesting societal vices through the hero, The Man. This study mainly investigates the stylistic features in the novel hinging heavily on the theory of cohesion in discourse, and reveals that various stylistic features are used by the novelist to communicate the writer’s thematic concerns. They include substitution, repetition, conjunctions, digression, temporal abridgement and figurative language.

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Dr. Acheoah John Emike. 2014. "A Stylistic Appraisal of Ayi Kwei Armahas The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - A: Arts & Humanities GJHSS-A Volume 14 (GJHSS Volume 14 Issue A5).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

Print ISSN 0975-587X

e-ISSN 2249-460X

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Cohesion fiction stylistic analysis stylistics

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Submission ReceivedDecember 7, 2013
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