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- Brad
- Former adult teacher who loves island beaches. Happy homebody and family man; once devoted dog owner, now without Tashi, my Tibetan Terrier. I prefer the absurdity of the imagination to the absurdity of imagining nothing.
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Style is as important as other components of a writing piece, such as theme, because it is what separates a writer from another. Poet E. e Cummings wrote some of the most interesting and clever poems I've read. He knew about the rules, but did not care so much about them. His playful use of (not only with words) lines, stanzas, spaces between words, capitalization, semicolons, and so on, makes him distinct from other writers. For example, in his poem “Buffalo Bill”, he wrote numbers and words without putting a space between each of them, “and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjuslikethat”, making the reader read continuously, and fast. He wrote in that manner to give his character, Bill, traits. It gives the reader the feeling and idea that Buffalo Bill was an active and masculine kind of man, as if they can see how quick Bill had broken those pigeons‘ necks. Style is a trademark, an identification. It that tells the readers that the author, and the piece that they are reading are—intelligent, ingenious—unlike any other.
-What does ‘style’ mean to a writer?:
When I think of ‘ style,’ I first think of clothes immediately because when I look at fashionable clothes, or shoes on people, I think they’re definitely in style. The writing is in the same way, I think, because when they’re writing they think about how the writings look like, and how to make their writings more attractive to the readers.
So, to make their writings more attractive to the readers are, I think, are telling the story as it is, like journalists telling the news. They also able to express emotions through the writings. And also, they’re able to tell their experiences through their writings. They’re also, I think, able to tell why the readers should read their stories, and the purpose of their stories, in other words, whether the stories are entertainments, pursuasives, or the other.
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