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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, a French naturalist (Morner and Rausch | 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, a French naturalist (Morner and Rausch 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain literary techniques such as tone and rythem. | ||
Myers and Wukasch write | Myers and Wukasch write 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). Again, style is acheived by the writer's usage of literary techniques. | ||
As Hacker points out, sentences have style that are the building blocks for the style of the entire body of work. Achieving style with sentences can be attained by [[What is parallel structure?|parallelism]], [[What are “coordinating conjunctions”?|coordination]], [[What are “subordinating conjunctions”?|subordination]], and/or other techniques such as [[What is a sentence?|sentence]] structure (80). | |||
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== Works Cited == | == Works Cited == | ||
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* Morner, Kathleen and Ralph Rausch. ''NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms''. 1991. | * Morner, Kathleen and Ralph Rausch. ''NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms''. 1991. | ||
* Myers, Jack and Don C. Wukasch. ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms''. 2003. | * Myers, Jack and Don C. Wukasch. ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms''. 2003. | ||
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