Style of Literature

[deep_sea]

What is "Style of Literature"?

[MikeK]

I don't know if this definition will help you with your assignment; it's a more artistic than technical definition, but Robert Frost had some interesting things to say about style:

"I have come to the conclusion that style in prose or verse is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying."
example:
"Many sensitive natures have plainly shown by their style that they took themselves lightly in self-defense. They are the ironists."

Concerning the old saying that 'Style is the man', Frost found that a slightly oversimplified definition:
"[A man's] deeds are his deeds; his ideas are his ideas. His style is the way he carries himself toward his ideas and deeds."

Some of his commentary:
"Emerson had one of the noblest least egotistical of styles. By comparison with it, Thoreau's was conceited, Whitman's bumptious. Carlyle's way of taking himself simply infuriates me. Longfellow took himself with the gentlest twinkle."

Of course, be careful. If you copy those things down without citing Frost, you're teacher will know it's not coming from you.