A Stylistic Study of English Catholic Death Prayers

Abstract

Death from a phenomenological point of view is non- being. Death is the opposite of life in that life’s nature deals with activity, aims and making order from disorder. Death is non-life and inactive. Although death is the state of a stillness, it is a huge chaos. In contrast to life which has an active meaning, death is separated from any type of meaning and value.This paper investigates stylistic devices used in a number of catholic death prayers. This paper deals with death prayers that are found in the selected English texts. This paper aims at finding out the effect of death or preparation for death in Catholic traditions. It is based on Leech and Short’s (1981) for analyzing the selected texts on phonological, lexical, and syntactic levels. According to this model, it also analyzes the tropes that are used in these texts.