Repeated or corresponding structures are treated as candidates, not proof of rhetorical effect. A repeated word alone is not parallelism.
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Literary & Corpus
Stylistics
Read patterns against their textual surroundings. Compare a target with a deliberately chosen reference corpus, inspect every excerpt, and keep interpretation in the hands of the researcher.
A narrated walkthrough
ADAR Stylistics video guide
Follow a complete introduction to building a corpus, comparing texts, and reading evidence in the Stylistics workspace.
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A practical framework for evidence-led literary and corpus stylistics.
Local departures are considered relative to patterns within the supplied text and its immediate context.
Frequency contrasts are normalized and accompanied by document-frequency and inferential statistics where available.
Demo requests do not require sign-in and do not modify data.