Fig (1): screen of wordlist from the program Table 1: A checklist of linguistic and stylistic categories (Leech and Short, 1981: 75-80) Table 2: Pronouns frequencies in the novel as part of lexical category. According to Mandell and Kirszner (2012: 194), general or generic words indicate "entire open-ended words. indicates that the direction of talk is to the listener or reader. Concentration will be more on content Verbs are used in the novel in different types. Some of them are physical (e.g., smiled/77 times and looked/173 times), mental (e.g., understand/75, believe/48, and know/208), and social (e.g., of tenses in the text reflects and exposes the situations in the Egyptian society during this time. Fig (3): screen of modal verbs from the program Table 4: Verb frequencies in the novel as a part of lexical category of verb form with “ing.” To express the general context of the society, the author used the verb going to share the concep in life and work too, saying, “The sense of distrust between her and the other villagers was entire mutual. She faced them in all her steadfast pride, going about her work and urging her children to gathering Egypt together, cross and crescent, king and servant, and all classes,” where she won th« Adjectives are semantically classified into physical, psychological, visual, auditory, referential Table 5: Verb frequencies in the novel as a part of lexical category of verb form with “ed.” past, and would do so again, she did not want to lose her dignity entirely in his presence.” Table 5 shows adjectives represent physical features like colour, shape, and so on. Four adjectives are used to describe adjectives are used to describe emotions and feelings, both positive and negative, or neutral emotions. indicate brightness or colour. Referential adjectives work to classify or specify entities. Emoti properties, including loudness, absolute pitch, relative pitch, and harmony or melody. Colour adjectives Abstract nouns are used. The general tags used for searching are (ness/139) and (ment/129), Table 6: General nouns frequencies in the novel as part of lexical category. Fig (5): screen of nouns from the program Adverbs Table (7): concrete nouns in the novel. Generally, adverbs can modify any grammatical category of words other than nouns, for and said, ‘Lousy! As usual, just like everyone,”, which is very important to the narrativity sequence of It is mostly followed by a noun phrase like “She examined his face. Then she began to dust the couch Lexical grouping through repetition helps people notice that almost all the repeated words end with (ly), it is found that she used 310 hits with different purposes. This is shown in table (8). Furthermore, many adverbs are used in the same manner depending on the context they are used in. thi adverbs that apply to the whole clause of the sentence express an attitude to it or a connective betweer coordinator "and" promoted the string of thoughts of the writer as it has a special function on the Contractions hits). Using contractions made the text simpler and easier to read. This is shown in figure (11). ised like “don’t, doesn’t, can’t, and couldn’t.” Among them, "don’t” is the most used contraction (314 Table (9): Determiners. Auxiliaries Table (11): frequencies of simple conjunctions that link compound sentences. Complex sentences are often more effective than compound sentences because a complex Table (12): examples of complex conjunctions Complex sentences are often more elfective than compound sentences because a complex sentence indicates clearer and more specific relationships between the main parts of the sentence. For instance, the word "before" tells readers that one thing occurs before another. A word such as "although" conveys a more complex relationship than that of a word such as "and." Periodic sentences using “when clause. This is shown in figure (14). Fig (14): screen of complex sentences from the program ng black skirt.” The dependent clauses can go first in the sentence, followed by the independent The notion of context indicates the whole environment or situational circumstance in which a particular
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