Style & Narration
Style Defined
"It is not sufficient to know what to say; we must also know how to say it."
Aristotle
Of all the rhetorical devices, style is hardest to explain. In its simplest form, style is how you do what you do. Whether it be in writing or music or art—everyone has a particular style. In writing, the style usually refers to the voice of the narration, the tone of the work, the persona in the text. It is what makes everybody's work unique.
Using style does mean "clarifying," it's not simply paring away words or something plugged in afterward. Style is a combination of voice and tone, syntax and diction, meter and rhyme. Style shows the author's stance, towards subject and audience.
