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Style

By Mark Flanagan, About.com

Definition: Style is the way in which an author uses words that give his or her work a distinctive manner of expression. It is the combined qualities that distinguish one writer's work from another.
Examples:
Hemingway's use of short words and simple construction make his style markedly different from that of his contemporary, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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