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ABSTRACT
This essay has examined the use of language and style in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. Adichie has actually employed similes, metaphors and synecdoche to express her hidden style, point of view or authorial attitude or ideological stance which does not align with conventional ideologies. Her use of idioms and symbolism underpins her style. Again, Adichie draws on such lexicogrammatical patterns as structural repetition (anaphora and parallelism) to encode cohesion and coherence in the sample extracts. Adichie has drawn on cohesive features like reference (anaphora), lexical cohesion (repetition mainly) and conjunction to generate cohesion in the extracts, on the one hand, and contextual clues lexicogrammatically enacted by the three contextual variables of field, tenor and mode, to create coherence therein, on the other. Additionally, the analysis of contextual features unveils that the three extracts are written from the firstperson point of view.
