Stylistic devices used in texts describing people in the novel "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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Stylistic devices (SDs) with their characteristics and functions have attracted much attention of many linguists and researchers. Discovering the marvel of the stylistic devices and applying them in literature is always a matter of endlessness. Thanks to the stylistic devices used in texts describing people (TDPs), writers can draw vivid pictures for readers without describing what exactly happen.This article attempts to identify and analyze the stylistic devices used in English texts describing people in the novel The Sun Also Rises, which is one of the famous novels by Ernest Hemingway. The article is aimed at identifying the two types of stylistic devices: lexical ones and syntactical ones. These findings can help language learners understand more clearly about SDs often employed in TDPs as well as Hemingway’s writing style so as to apply them with confidence in their own writing.