Style

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 * Style and literary standards **
 * All writers have a style, but not all styles are good.
 * Whether a style is good or bad largely depends on whether it is appropriate to the work.

What does the style lend to the work as a whole?

Style should work with other elements to produce a final unity.


 * Style is the author's personal expression. **
 * It reveals his/her way of perceiving experience and organizing perceptions.
 * Style includes the author's choice of words as well as arrangement of words into phrases, sentences, and paragraphs.

**Elements of style:** diction, imagery, and syntax **Diction:** the author's choice of words and their effect on the total work ^Denotative meaning: the literal meaning of a word

^Connotative meaning: suggestions and associations resulting from a word or group of words.

Several words may have the same denotation, while differing significantly in their connotation.

<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Is a writer's style basically denotative or connotative? <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">**Imagery:** the evocation of a sensory experience through words.
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Literal images: Suggest no change or extension in the meaning of a word; supply specific, concrete details.
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Figurative images, or figures of speech; similes and metaphors.
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Recurrent images: Repetitions of the same or similar images throughout a work can reinforce an effect that the author is trying to create.
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Symbols: The author's attempts to represent areas of human experience that ordinary language cannot express; the symbol evokes a concrete, objective reality while suggesting a level of meaning beyond that reality
 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Archetypal image: concept of Carl Jung. There are images and symbols that are universal, existing from one culture to another, that always have the same meaning. http://www.ci.maryville.tn.us/mhs/studyskills/compguide/LitAnaStyle.htm