What is authors writing style in Twilight?
First you have to be able to define style… One easy way to understand literary style is to think about fashion styles. Clothes can be formal and dressy, informal and casual, preppy, athletic, and so forth. Literary style is like the clothes that a text puts on. By analogy, the information underneath is like the person’s body, and the specific words, structures, and arrangements that are used are like the clothes. Just as we can dress one person in several different fashions, we can dress a single message in several different literary styles: Original “No sich uh thing!” Tea Cake retorted. (Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1978, p. 205.) Informal “Nothing like that ever happened,” Tea Cake replied. Formal “With great fortune, that happenstance did not become a reality,” Tea Cake stated. Journalistic, after Ernest Hemingway “It did not happen,” Tea Cake said. Archaic, after Nathaniel Hawthorne “Verily, it was a circumstance, to be noted, that a
