prose style
Author's sentence craft
Prose style is the distinctive manner in which a writer constructs sentences, chooses words, and shapes paragraphs.
It encompasses rhythm, tone, syntax, and diction—everything that makes one author's writing recognizably different from another's.
Hemingway's prose style favors short, declarative sentences.
Style may be spare or ornate, formal or conversational, and often reflects both the writer's personality and the conventions of a genre or era.
- dictionChoice of words
- registerRecord officially; vocal range
- formalFollowing strict protocol
- paragraphingDividing text into blocks
- syntaxRules for arranging words
cadence · metaphor · coherence · parallelism · phrasing · narrative voice · active voice · passive voice · periodic sentence · grammar · sentence fragment · pacing · vocabulary · simile · understatement · conversational · alliteration · transitions
- writingwriting, drafting, authors, author, books
- literary elementsplot, character, setting, theme, narrator
- fiction writingfiction, novels, plot, chapters, character
- literary analysisliterary analysis, character analysis, book review, plot, critical analysis
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
- literary fictionliterary realism, contemporary fiction, character-driven, character study, character studies
prose stylepoetry
Metrical literary composition
verse form · verse · poetic form · blank verse · lyric poetry
prose stylestream of consciousness
Narrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
colloquial speech · oral tradition · spoken word · vernacular