stylistic choice
Deliberate artistic preference
A stylistic choice is a deliberate decision about how to express something rather than what to express.
Writers make stylistic choices about sentence length, vocabulary, and tone; musicians about tempo and instrumentation; filmmakers about lighting and camera angles.
The term often appears when defending unconventional decisions: The fragmented sentences were a stylistic choice, not an error.
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- textureSurface tactile quality
- contrastNotable difference between things
- dictionChoice of words
- syntaxRules for arranging words
line · detail · aesthetic · alliteration · register · silhouette · poetic license · artistic license · narrative voice · personal voice · authorial · palette · formalism · motif · abstraction · tone · shade · bold
stylistic choiceaccident
Unintended harmful event
mistake · error · slip · oversight · happenstance
stylistic choiceconstraint
Limiting condition or rule
requirement · necessity · convention · rule · mandate