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Instructor: Jamala MammadovaStudents: Zahra DovlatzadeNarmin NadirzadeThE Belles Lettres Style

What is belles lettres style?

Literally, belles-lettres is aFrenchphrase meaning "beautiful" or "fine" writing.

General termsThe belles- letters style is a generic term for three substyles in which the main principles and the most general properties of the style are materialized. These three substyles are:

LANGUAGE OF POETRY

The language of poetryVerse has a property, which is based mainly on the rhythmic and phonetic arrangement of the utterances.

VerseFREE CLASSICAL

Classical verse Alteration of stressed and unstressed syllablesAn equal number of syllables in the lines A natural pause at the end of line Identify of stanza patternEstablished patterns of rhyming

StanzaThe largest unit of verse composed of a number of lines is called the stanza. There are 5 types of stanza :The heroic couplet 2 Iambic pentametrThe Spencerian stanza- Iambic hexameterOttova Rima stanza-8 iambic pentameterThe ballad stanza-Iambic dimeterThe sonnet- 14 iambic pentameter

EMOTIVE PROSE

LANGUAGE OF THE DRAMA

The language of plays in the belles-letters is that unlike poetry, which except for ballads, in essence excludes direct speech and therefore dialogue, and unlike emotive prose, which is a combination of monologue and dialogue, the language of plays is entirely dialogue.

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