Abstract

Stylistics is the most wildly used issue in the literary studies. It aims at identifying the linguistic patterns of usage and meanings of literary text and showing their formal feature and functional value in a text. Flannery O'Connor is a short story writer she wrote stories one of them is "A Good Man is Hard to Find''. This paper, however, is concerned primarily with the style of the short story ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'', and tries to answer the following questions how does O'Connor use element in category C (figures of speech) to maintain the stylistic effect? And how do these elements support the theme of the story? It aims at providing a stylistic analysis of the short story, deriving its underlying theories from a method of prose text analysis, proposed by literary stylists Leech & Short. The analysis is done with emphasis on the element in Category C in Leech and Short model.