Style | The Eckleburg Workshops: Literary Terms

Style combines two elements: the idea to be expressed and the individuality of the author. From the point of view of style is is impossible to change the diction to say exactly the same thing; for what the reader receives from a statement is not only what is said, but also certain connotations that affect the consciousness. Just as no two personalities are alike, no two styles are exactly alike. It has been observed that even infants have individual styles. Even in so limited a medium as Morse code, each sender has a style, called a “fist….” A study of styles for the purpose of analysis will include, in addition to the infinity of personal detail suggested above, such general qualities as: diction, sentence structure and variety, imagery, rhythm, repetition, coherence, emphasis, and arrangement of ideas. There is a growing interest in the study of styler and language in fiction: phenomenology, semiotics, structuralism. (Handbook to Literature)

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