According to the Style and Tone PowerPoint, it discusses how the writer has a choice for their writing style because the writer chooses a writing style that is based on the characters, setting, and plot of the story (Style and Tone PowerPoint Slide 3). Reading out loud is a way to discover a writer’s writing style because when reading you should slow down and you should experience the details that the author is providing us with, such as images, metaphors, and the rhythm of words (Style and Tone PowerPoint Slide 4).
There are several aspects of writing style that an author may choose to use in their writing, which includes connotation, imagery, figurative language, hyperbole, understatement, allusion, and symbols (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel (214-219). According to the textbook and
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Imagery is the most commonly used device by authors and imagery is used by authors to create the setting of the story, to help to show a character, and to establish the mood of the story (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel 214). The writer of will use imagery to give readers impressions of what they are writing about and depicting to us I their stories (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel 214 and Style and Tone PowerPoint Slide 6). An author in their story may decide to use figurative language, which is the use of words in a nonliteral way, giving meaning beyond the usual, everyday definitions, adding another layer of meaning (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel 215 and Style and Tone PowerPoint Slide 7). An author may use personification in their writing, which is when an author gives human traits to inanimate objects or to nonhumans (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel 215 and Style and Tone PowerPoint Slide 7). An author may use a simile, which is the comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as, while a metaphor is a suggested comparison of two things that are unlike (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel