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Writing style

Index Writing style

In literature, writing style often refers to the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. [1]

40 relations: A Tale of Two Cities, Active voice, Bantam Books, Bedford-St. Martin's, Charles Dickens, Clause, Creative writing, Dependent clause, Diction, Dylan Thomas, Grammar, Hamlet, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Literary element, Literary genre, Literature, Macmillan Publishers (United States), Martin Luther King Jr., Merriam-Webster, Mode (literature), Narration, Palgrave Macmillan, Paragraph, Passive voice, Penguin Books, Punctuation, Random House, Ray Bradbury, Sentence (linguistics), Spelling, The American Crisis, Thesis statement, Thomas Paine, Tone (literature), Vintage Books, W. W. Norton & Company, William Shakespeare, Word, Writer's Digest.

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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Active voice

Active voice is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages.

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Bantam Books

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.

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Bedford-St. Martin's

Bedford/St.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Clause

In grammar, a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Dependent clause

A dependent clause is a clause that provides a sentence element with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence.

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Diction

Diction (dictionem (nom. dictio), "a saying, expression, word"), in its original, primary meaning, refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression in a poem or story.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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Grammar

In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.

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Literary element

A literary element, or narrative element, or element of literature is a constituent of all works of narrative fiction—a necessary feature of verbal storytelling that can be found in any written or spoken narrative.

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Literary genre

A literary genre is a category of literary composition.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

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Macmillan Publishers (United States)

Macmillan Publishers USA was the former name of a now mostly defunct American publishing company.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially known for its dictionaries.

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Mode (literature)

In literature and other artistic media, a mode is an unspecific critical term usually designating a broad but identifiable kind of literary method, mood, or manner that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company.

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Paragraph

A paragraph (from the Ancient Greek παράγραφος paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea.

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Passive voice

Passive voice is a grammatical voice common in many languages.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Punctuation

Punctuation (formerly sometimes called pointing) is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of handwritten and printed text, whether read silently or aloud.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Sentence (linguistics)

In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked.

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Spelling

Spelling is the combination of alphabetic letters to form a written word.

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The American Crisis

The American Crisis is a pamphlet series by eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher and author, Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.

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Thesis statement

A thesis statement usually appears at the middle or end of the introductory paragraph of a paper, and it offers a concise summary of the main point or claim of the essay, research paper, etc.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1. Paine's birth date, therefore, would have been before New Year, 1737. In the new style, his birth date advances by eleven days and his year increases by one to February 9, 1737. The O.S. link gives more detail if needed. – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

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Tone (literature)

In literature, the tone of a literary work is the effect that the writer creates on the readers through choice of writing style.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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W. W. Norton & Company

W.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Word

In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning.

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Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest is an American magazine aimed at beginning and established writers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_style

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