Style

Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. "Style is the man himself" writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.

Myers and Wukasch write in their Italic textDictionary of Poetic TermsItalic text that "style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character..." (346).