Sytle Mapping !

The narrator of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian demonstrates a thorough understanding of picturesque, and formally sophitcated Diction. The words could be described as connotative with a harmonious sound. The expressive adjectives such as "endless," "gnashing," "bitter," "hobbled," "pinewood,"  "oblique" portrays a lustrous description and creates an experience of the dark mood of the passage.The passage from "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman is describing a town called Wall and is straightforward and common. The diction falls into the category of being very denotative with a high and elevated tone wtih a light use of figurative language. The narrator uses only common adjectives such as "old" and "square." The narrator describes the houses of Wall with conversational, blunt language. The epigraph of the novel My Sister's Keeper could be described as denotative as everything is straightforward and set for the novel. The opening epigraph immediately sets a dark and dramatic tone for the novel by using lofty language to speak of war and the aims of war. The choice of epigraph implies that a battle of some sort will ensue in the novel, in at least a figurative sense, and the stakes will be life and death.