A stylistic study of selected children's short stories in English and Arabic

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Stylistics is the most common discipline used in literary studies.

It aims at identifying the linguistic patterns of usage and meaning of literary texts and showing the formal features and their functional significance in the texts.

This study is an attempt to reveal the linguistic and stylistic features of two famous English and Arabic children's short stories in the 20th century by famous writers.

In addition, they include supernatural elements in writing their stories.

The English story being Roald Dahl's the Magic Finger, and the Arabic story being Kamil Qilani's Ali Baba.

At the beginning, this paper gives a general introduction about the study: the problem, aim, hypotheses of the study and explaining the concept of style and stylistics, the notion of children's literature.

Then, a stylistic study of the two stories are carried out.

At the end of research, there are the major conclusions that the researcher reached as the result of the stylistic study of those two stories, and these followed by the bibliography.