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Style, Tone and Irony Style Definition the distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effect The arrangement of words in a manner which at once best expresses the individuality of the author and the idea and intent in the author’s mind. (Holman 432) A writer who cultivates an artful literary style is called a literary stylist Styles can be ornamental, forceful, poetic, abstract, concrete, rhythmic, pedestrian, sincere, artificial, dignified, comic, original, imitative, dull, vivid. A study of styles involves diction, sentence, structure, variety, imagery, rhythm, repetition, coherence, emphasis, arrangement of ideas. Style in terms of diction Style in terms of diction refers to what words a writer uses, which reveals personality, conveys themes, creates atmosphere. Denotative/connotative Parts of speech, length and construction Formal, informal, colloquial Figurative devices: simile, metaphor, personification Style in terms of syntax Style in terms of syntax refers to how words are arranged in phrases and sentences Short and spare long and involved Simple, compound, complex Loose, periodic balanced Examples of Styles Examples: William Faulkner Faulkner uses an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence: highly emotional, subtle, complex, and sometimes Gothic or grotesque. An example from “A Rose for Emily”: It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house as left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and an

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