... the story. These traits and characteristics include and are not limited to symbolism, characterization, and other elements. When evaluating a literature piece for style one should analyze the following five elements: diction, images, details, language, and sentence structure. Two well-known American writers with completely different styles are Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Hemingway and Faulkner's similarities and differences in style ... -Lighted Place- (Hemingway 141) and "pleasant- (Hemingway 143). The two waiters describe the customer as a "clean old man...a good client- (He...

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... aspect of his writing style and a fundamental element of everything he wrote. His speech remained simple, he preferred short words over long and simple declarative statements. Wells concludes that "Hemingway's diction, however, remained essentially of the same monosyllabic, Anglo-Saxon cast"." (Wells 129) There is an element of Hemingway's style that bears mentioning which we have not yet mentioned: It is ... not relevant to this paper to delve deeply into that, it has to be noted that Hemingway's style is powerfully driven by these men and that "Hemingway's fondness for simple diction i...

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... Hemingway's feelings on this subject. This phrase and those that follow as Hemingway shamelessly rewrites the Lords Prayer combine seamlessly with Hemingway's subtly deep and very human characters, simple crisp diction, and quiet setting of a café in post World War I Spain to create the sorrowful despairing tone that so easily displays the overrunning theme of man's struggle to escape the ... the remainder of the paragraph that follows is very carefully chosen to present the reader with possibility that everything, including the church is nothing. Hemingway's trademark style of simple ...

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... of styles of writing in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. He created a short story, using only the minimum building blocks necessary to accomplish the job of telling a story. He uses simple diction, usually consisting of Anglo-Saxon, as opposed to the Latin origin. His sentence structure consists of simple sentences with no metaphors and similes. Hemmingway also is very repetitive about the ... story to make it clear to the reader how each character feels. In conclusion, Hemmingway uses several types of styles of writing. Some of which happen to be simplicity, simple diction, and repetition....

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... . This one of the many examples of how an author uses his/her characters and objects to symbolize other more significant ideas or meanings. In great literature, the syntax and diction of the entire work has symbolism and deeper meaning. Authors usually symbolize or allude to objects or the ideas of the time period that the literature is written although some ... ...

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... Hemingway's style depth best with this criticism "first, short and simple sentence constructions, with heavy use of parallelism, which convey the effect of control, terseness, and blunt honesty; second, purged diction which above all eschews the use of bookish, latinate, or abstract words and thus achieves the effect of being heard or spoken or transcribed from reality rather than appearing as ... ...

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... reader sees of this is only six pages into the novel. Hemingway writes, "That night in the mess after the spaghetti course . . . the captain commenced picking on the priest". Hemingway's diction is suggestive: "commenced" signifies not only that the soldiers began to pick on the priest, but that ridiculing the priest was their main activity prior to dinner as well as ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School