There are many different styles that people can choose from. A few of the most common styles are described below. All of these are examples of different styles, but you do not have to follow this definition exactly. The only definition that we will use is that styles can be a mixture of any of these definitions.
This word choice has a very large amount of variation in its possible meanings. The most commonly used definition is “the style of a writer”. This shows how broad this definition can be because it applies to many different styles. However, the more specific definition is “a distinctive manner of saying or doing something” which makes it even less specific than the other two.
Another popular term is “persuasive writing style”. This again describes both a generic and descriptive style. A more specific way of using the term is “a style of literature that tends to persuade its readers into accepting some sort of conclusion about a given subject”. This shows that there can be some correlation between the two, but the term is descriptive and not prescriptive.
A descriptive style is one where the author uses various forms of literary devices and various types of language to describe the subject being described. One author may describe someone with glasses as “a man with a red-faced visage” and another author may describe the same person using more specific terms such as “a large frame with narrow eyes” which conveys much more meaning than just the word “red”. In a descriptive style, the reader can fill in the blanks on certain attributes about people. For instance, a character’s eye color is descriptive of the psychological characteristics of that character, while her age is descriptive of the chronological age of the person.
On the other hand, a style that is expository is one where the writer describes the subject’s problem or concern in detail with little or no reference to any literary devices. The style may also be called a plain style because it makes use of only a single word to present a wide range of ideas or concepts. An expository style tends to have more impact when used in reference works such as encyclopedias and literary novels.
The third style that we will discuss is known as a formal style. It was made popular by two literary greats, Mark Twain and Herman Melville who is best known for his “ridiculous” novels. Formal style in literature is characterized by having a clear beginning, middle, and end. The language is clear and concise.
An expository writing style is not to be confused with descriptive writing or narrative writing. A story is told through the point of view of a central character who gives all the facts without editorializing anything. narrating only gives information. A descriptive writing style tends to include much editorialized information to provide a particular opinion or perspective about a specific subject. And a narrative style involves telling a story using several characters to tell an event.
There are numerous other styles. But we have dealt only with the three major expository writing styles. Any good writer will be able to adapt any of these three to write any kind of story. The key is simply choosing the style that suits your purposes the best. There is no right or wrong style but it is best to know which kind you prefer so that you can begin to write in that style instead of trying to adapt some other style that may not suit your needs.