Use In linguistics the purpose of close analysis is to identify and classify the elements of language being used. In literary studies the purpose is usually an adjunct to understanding, exegesis, and interpretation. In both cases, an extremely detailed and scrupulous attention is paid to the text . This process may now be aided by computer programs which able to analyse texts. At this point, the study of language moves into either 'stylistics' or 'literary studies'.
Stylistic analysis is a normal part of literary studies.
It is practised as a part of understanding the possible meanings in a text . It is also generally assumed that the process of analysis will reveal the good qualities of the writing. In a complete analysis, the significance of these stylistic details would be related to the events of the play itself, and to Shakespeare's presentation of them. In some forms of stylistic analysis, the numerical recurrence of certain stylistic features is used to make judgements about the nature and the quality of the writing. However, it is important to recognise that the concept of style is much broader than just the 'good style' of literary prose.