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When a writer writes he is constantly involved in making linguistic choice—choices between one word and another, one structure and another, and so on. Examination of the choices that he makes (as opposed to the ones that he rejects) can help us to understand more fully the meaning he is trying to create and the effects he is striving to achieve. He can make choices both inside and outside the language system. Choices outside the language system are _____________________ and thus produce foregrounding. __________________________ of a particular choice within the system (e.g. parallelism) also produces foregrounding(Short, 1984:21). This is to say that it is _____________________________feature that are stylistically relevant and merit consideration in a stylistic analysis. In other words, style is foregrounding. Leech suggests that: “Foregrounding is a useful, even crucial, concept in stylistics, providing a bridge between relative ______________________ of linguistic description and the relative _______________________________of literary judgment. It is a criterion by which we may select, from a mass of linguistic detail, those features relevant to literary effects”(1973:75)