Short Story - Voice

Question 1

back ground

Answer 1

• the Voice of a literary work is the author’s writing personality, which we see through the following:
• the sentence structure the author uses
• the word choices the author makes
• the tone: the author/narrator’s attitude toward the text. the tone often gives us clues to author’s message

Question 2

note

Answer 2

• it is the author’s voice that identifies his or her writing style, so that we can often tell the difference in a text written by Mark Twain from one by Ernest Hemingway or Annie Dillard