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Why and how do writers of literary English deliberately break accepted rules of grammar, pronunciation or organization?
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Why and how do writers of literary English deliberately break accepted rules of grammar, pronunciation or organization? Illustrate your answer by using examples from Block 4. What in your opinion is "literary language"? Every language has rules for combining sounds with words and linguists have pointed out syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations between words. These syntagmatic and paradigmatic rules are often exploited and broken in literary language. In fact, rules governing the sound system, the writing system, word structure, grammar and paragraphing can be broken, individually or in combination. We will be exploring into different genres, mainly poetry, plays, short stories and novels as we investigate into how and why these writers break accepted rules of grammar, pronunciation or organization. Grammar As we explore on how and why writers break accepted rules of grammar in literary language, we want to narrow our focus into poetry. First of all, poets use metaphors, collocation, iconicity, vernacular,...
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