Definitions and concepts

Foreground is a term In stylistics, the notion of

usually used in art, foregrounding, a term borrowed
having opposite from the Prague School of
meaning to Linguistics, is used by Leech and
background. Short (1981: 48) to refer to
foregrounding artistically motivated deviation

The immediate effect of

foregrounding is to make
strange (ostranenie), to achieve
defamiliarization.