Literary Style and its Components

When analyzing style, we always come to two contrasting categories: linguistic style, and literary style. Linguistic style investigates the signs of a specific language to discover its general rules; these rules systematically describe the sounds, words, and the syntactic structures of the language and provide the speakers with definite criteria and norms. Literary style, from the other side, focuses on the elements of a work specified for its ways of using linguistic elements and tries to find out the ways through which the work goes beyond the general rules of language. This article, in describing the literary style, follows three hypotheses: 1. It is impossible to give a universal and proper definition of literary style; 2.it is possible to describe the literary style and examine the described elements; 3. Both literary and linguistic style contain the same elements, but while these elements are deliberate and systematic in the former, they are random and casual in the latter.