BELAROUI Thameur, AZZOUZ Hamza2019-01-172019-01-172017-06an2017/056http://dspace.univ-msila.dz:8080//xmlui/handle/123456789/7039Persuasive writing presents the writer's opinion explicitly and tries to convince the reader to agree with them. However, there is another kind of writing which tries to spread tacit information for the purpose of affecting the reader‟s thoughts and promoting a cause or point of view. This kind of writing is widespread in novels of fictional nature where novelists employ many psychological and linguistic techniques to make their novels amply meaningful and subject to many interpretations by their targeted readers. Fictional writings can, therefore, serve as a vehicle to convey positive or negative implications to the targeted readers for the purpose of persuading them, informing them, or entertaining and sharing experiences or feelings with them. This can be achieved only with the help of a set of appropriately employed linguistic and psychological tools. This work is an attempt to uncover and categorize those psychological and linguistic tools used in fiction through the qualitative analysis of a young adult fictional novel taken as a case study, namely Lois Lowry‟s The Giver (1993). By revealing those psychological and linguistic tools, we will be able to detect any possible dogmas behind the text. However, we are to put much emphasis on the religious and political dogmas due to their importance in forming the individual and collective ideologies. This thesis, therefore, might help founding a scientific basis for interpreting fiction and answering the question of how fiction can affect peoples‟ reality.otherrevealing those psychologicalThesis