Objective: to have a better understanding of foregrounding applied in literary style.Methods: make an analysis of foregrounding applied in literary style from these aspects: concept,relation between prominence(psychological saliency) and literary relevance(foregrounding).Results: foregrounding has four functions in the analysis of literary texts.Conclusion: foregrounding is an important phenomenon,which cannot be excluded from the essential concerns of stylistics in general because stylistics is that part of linguistics which pays special attention to the most conscious and complex use of language in literature. Objective: to have a better understanding of foregrounding applied in literary style. Methods: make an analysis of foregrounding applied in literary style from these aspects: concept, relation between prominence (psychological saliency) and literary relevance (foregrounding) .Results: foregrounding has four functions in the analysis of literary texts.Conclusion: foregrounding is an important phenomenon, which can not be excluded from the essential concerns of stylistics in general because stylistics is that part part linguistics which pays special attention to the most conscious and complex use of language in literature .