A Stylistic Analysis to Agatha Christie’s Novel Three Act Tragedy

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Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Port Said University. Port Said, Egypt.

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The purpose of this research is to conduct an investigation on Agatha Christie’s (1934) novel “Three Act Tragedy” style of writing. Additionally, it tends to be a linguistic study. Besides, its goal, principally, is to draw attention to the author’s unique linguistic peculiarities of writing style in her novel. Moreover, in order to observe the writer’s style, it employs the methodical procedures of Short & Leech’s (2007) “Style in Fiction”, in particular, their toolkit, as well as Halliday and Hassan’s cohesive devices in their (1976) “Cohesion in English”. Accordingly, Christie’s chosen texts are examined in terms of four dimensions: lexical categories, coherence and cohesion, grammatical categories, and figures of speech. Furthermore, the impacts of the writer’s word choice on the readers are accurately interpreted based on observations of her writing techniques. Consequently, the results of this study show that the author’s tactics help to increase the amount of engagement between the writer and the reader. As a result, this allows readers to choose their desired interpretation of the narrative, to broaden their minds and enhancing an evaluation for her works which helps to increase the overall appreciation of her work.

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