So This Was Adolescence, By Annie Dillard: Author Writing Style

So This Was Adolescence, by Annie Dillard: Author Writing Style


     Different authors use different styles of writing to express the ideas.

The style of writing is what paints the picture of the story.  In the story So

This Was Adolescence, by Annie Dillard, there are two major traditional writing

styles exhibited.  The first style Illustrated in So This Was Adolescence is

comparison/contrast.  In this style, the author compares or contrast the

character with specific mannerisms of others.  The next style is imagery.

Imagery helps the reader to visualize what is happening to the character.  Annie

Dillard uses both of these styles to tell her story.

     The first style is comparison/contrast.  Dillard utilizes

comparison/contrast to compare herself to characters in books.  She longs to

become a woman such as those in romance novels.  “I envied 
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