• Sarab Kadir Mugair

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• Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi

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All the fun is in how you say a thing.” Robert Frost’s words give us a
perfect explanation about why style is important in a research. According to Alan Warner, style is a way of writing, a manner of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings in words. A same meaning can have different effects on its readers by being put in different ways. This paper is to take the famous speech of Martin Luther King as an
example to analyze and discuss its stylistic characteristics. It is not only the spirit of equality and liberty advocated in the speech but also its impressive style that contribute to its great success.
In fact, the present study is divided into three sections: the first section deals with introduction to stylistics; Stylistics and other linguistic principles. The second section concerns itself with style—author; and clean English:the arrangement; the figure of speech; contrast & metaphor; and parallelism. Whereas the third section deals with
conclusion. This researcher is going to pay an attention to notions developed by linguists like Leech (1969), (1970) and Jakobson (1960), (1966), (1967), and (1968) since their notions are relevant to the aim of the present study.

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