Siena College Tigaon

Gingaroy Tigaon, Camarines Sur

A/Y 2022-2023

STYLISTIC
AND
DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS
Prepared by:
Florian Gayle C. Villamor
BSE ENGLISH III

Submitted to:
Mr. Marvin Sales
Instructor
1. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7,
1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is
famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of
horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the
best-known poems in the national literature.

Works:
 The Angel of the Odd
 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
 The Assignation (The Visionary)
 The Balloon Hoax
 Berenice
 The Black Cat
 Bon-Bon (The Bargain Lost)
 The Cask of Amontillado
 The Colloquy of Monos and Una
 The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (The Destruction of the World)
 A Decided Loss (Loss of Breath)
 A Descent into the Maelström
 The Devil in the Belfry
 Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences
 The Domain of Arnheim (The Landscape Garden )
 The Duc de L’Omelette
 Eleonora
 Epimanes (Four Beasts in One) (The Homocameleopard)  
 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
 The Fall of the House of Usher
 The Gold-Bug
 Hans Phaall — A Tale (The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall)
 Hop-Frog
 How to Write a Blackwood Article (The Psyche Zenobia)
 The Imp of the Perverse
 The Island of the Fay
 King Pest
 Landor’s Cottage 
 Ligeia
 The Light-House
 Lionizing
 The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq
 The Man of the Crowd
 The Man that was Used Up
 The Masque of the Red Death
 Mellonta Tauta
 Mesmeric Revelation
 Metzengerstein
 Morella
 Morning on the Wissahiccon (The Elk)  
 MS. found in a Bottle (Manuscript found in a Bottle)
 The Murders in the Rue Morgue
 The Mystery of Marie Roget
 Mystification (Von Jung)
 Never Bet the Devil Your Head
  The Oblong Box
 The Oval Portrait (Life in Death) 
 Peter Pendulum, the Business Man
 The Pit and the Pendulum
 Politian
 The Power of Words
 The Premature Burial
 The Purloined Letter
 The Scythe of Time
 Shadow — A Fable
 Silence — A Fable (Siope — A Fable)
 Some Words with a Mummy
 The Spectacles
 The Sphinx
 The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
 A Tale of Jerusalem
 A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
 The Tell-Tale Heart
 Thou Art the Man
 The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
 A Succession of Sundays (Three Sundays in a Week)
 Von Kempelen and His Discovery
 Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
 William Wilson
 X-ing a Paragrab

Unique Writing Style: The tragedies and struggles Poe faced during his early life
combined with the influence of Romantic literature brought about a style of Gothic
writing that was unique to Poe. His morbid imagery and cadence-laced texts spoke to
readers in a way that was different from any other American author of his time.

2. Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, original name Chloe Anthony Wofford, (born February 18,

1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.—died August 5, 2019, Bronx, New York), American writer noted for
her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the
Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

Morrison grew up in the American Midwest in a family that possessed an intense love of and
appreciation for Black culture. Storytelling, songs, and folktales were a deeply formative part of
her childhood. She attended Howard University (B.A., 1953) and Cornell University (M.A.,
1955). After teaching at Texas Southern University for two years, she taught at Howard from
1957 to 1964. In 1965 Morrison became a fiction editor at Random House, where she worked for
a number of years. In 1984 she began teaching writing at the State University of New York at
Albany, which she left in 1989 to join the faculty of Princeton University; she retired in 2006.

Works:  
 “The Book About Mean People” 
 “A Mercy” 
 “Beloved” 
 “God Help the Child” 
 “Home” 
 “Jazz” 
 “Love” 
 “Paradise” 
 “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination” 
  “Please, Louise” 
 “Song of Solomon” 
 “Sula” 
 “The Bluest Eye” 
 “The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations” 
 “What Moves at the Margin”

Unique Writing Style:

Morrison's writings concentrate on rural Afro-American communities and on their

cultural inheritance, which she explores with cold-blooded detail and vivid vocabulary.
Her intricate writing style does not just tell the reader about issues concerning African-
Americans instead she shows them.

3. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, in full Ernest Miller Hemingway, (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in
Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.—died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho), American novelist and
short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for
the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.
His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British
fiction in the 20th century.

Works:  
 “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” 
 “A Farewell to Arms” 
 “A Moveable Feast” 
 “Across the River and Into the Trees” 
 “Death in the Afternoon” 
 “For Whom the Bell Tolls” 
 “Green Hills of Africa” 
 “Hills like White Elephants” 
 “In Our Time” 
 “Islands in the Stream” 
 “The Fifth Column” 
 “The Old Man and the Sea” 
 “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” 
 “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” 
 “The Sun Also Rises” 
 “To Have and Have Not”

Unique Writing Style:

Among many great American writers, Hemingway is famous for his objective and terse prose
style. As all the novels Hemingway published in his life, The Old Man and the Sea typically
reflects his unique writing style. The language is simple and natural on the surface, but actually
deliberate and artificial.

4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (born August 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died
March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar), German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist,
statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary
figure of the modern era.
Goethe is the only German literary figure whose range and international standing equal those
of Germany’s supreme philosophers (who have often drawn on his works and ideas) and
composers (who have often set his works to music). In the literary culture of the German-
speaking countries, he has had so dominant a position that, since the end of the 18th century, his
writings have been described as “classical.” In a European perspective he appears as the central
and unsurpassed representative of the Romantic movement, broadly understood. He could be
said to stand in the same relation to the culture of the era that began with the Enlightenment and
continues to the present day as William Shakespeare does to the culture of
the Renaissance and Dante to the culture of the High Middle Ages. His Faust, though eminently
stageworthy when suitably edited, is also Europe’s greatest long poem since John
Milton’s Paradise Lost, if not since Dante’s The Divine Comedy.

Works:  
 “Alexis und Dora” 
 “Auf dem See” 
 “Clavigo” 
 “Der Gross-Cophta” 
 “Egmont” 
 “Faust” 
 “Götz von Berlichingen” 
 “Hermann und Dorothea” 
 “Iphigenie in Tauris” 
 “Stella” 
 “The Erl-King” 
 “The Sorrows of Young Werther” 
 “The Theatrical Mission of Wilhelm Meister” 
 “Torquato Tasso” 
 “Über allen Gipfeln” 
 “Venetian Epigrams” 
 “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship”

Unique Writing Style:

Though he was there to study law, Goethe earned accolades for his poetry, written in the lyric
and rococo style, and completed his first collection, Annette, a collection of love poems.

5. C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis, in full Clive Staples Lewis, (born November 29, 1898, Belfast, Ireland [now in
Northern Ireland]—died November 22, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), Irish-born scholar,
novelist, and author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The
Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The
Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have become classics
of fantasy literature.

Reading and education were valued highly in the Lewis household. Lewis’s father, Albert Lewis,
was a solicitor, and his mother, Florence Hamilton Lewis, graduated from the Royal University
of Ireland (now Queen’s University Belfast) at a time when it was not common for women to
earn degrees. Lewis and his older brother, Warren (“Warnie”), like their parents,
were avid readers. Lewis was something of a prodigy: he was reading by age three and by five
had begun writing stories about a fantasy land populated by “dressed animals,” influenced by the
stories of Beatrix Potter, which were being published as Lewis grew up. Selections of those early
stories were collected in Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis (1985).
Works:  
 “Out of the Silent Planet” 
 “Perelandra” 
 “That Hideous Strength” 
 “The Abolition of Man” 
 “The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition” 
 “The Chronicles of Narnia” 
 “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” 
 “The Screwtape Letters” 
 “Till We Have Faces”
Unique Writing Style:

Lewis had a rhythm as he wrote. He'd write six or seven words, whispering the words aloud as
he wrote. Then he'd dip the pen in the ink—mentally composing the next phrase as he did so—
and he'd write and whisper six or seven more words.

6. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O’Connor, in full Mary Flannery O’Connor, (born March 25, 1925, Savannah,
Georgia, U.S.—died August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia), American novelist and short-story
writer whose works, usually set in the rural American South and often treating of alienation,
concern the relationship between the individual and God.

O’Connor grew up in a prominent Roman Catholic family in her native Georgia. She lived

in Savannah until her adolescence, but the worsening of her father’s lupus erythematosus forced
the family to relocate in 1938 to the home in rural Milledgeville where her mother had been
raised. After graduating from Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College & State
University) in 1945, she studied creative writing at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Works:  
 “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” 
 “Everything That Rises Must Converge” 
 “The Habit of Being” 
 “The Presence of Grace, and Other Book Reviews” 
 “The Violent Bear It Away” 
 “Wise Blood”

Unique Writing Style:

O'Connor's style is best described as Southern Gothic, which is a style of literature that has
flawed and disturbed characters in sinister situations, usually taking place in the southern United
States. Her writing explores religion and morality, and often how the two horrifically collide.

7. Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, byname of Charles McCarthy, Jr., (born July 20,

1933, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.), American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose
novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their
dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity.
McCarthy attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and served in the U.S. Air
Force from 1953 to 1956. Readers were first introduced to McCarthy’s difficult narrative style in
the novel The Orchard Keeper (1965), about a Tennessee man and his two mentors. Social
outcasts highlight such novels as Outer Dark (1968), about two incestuous siblings; Child of
God (1974; film 2013), about a lonely man’s descent into depravity; and Suttree (1979), about a
man who overcomes his fixation on death.

Works:  
 “All the Pretty Horses” 
 “Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West” 
 “Child of God” 
 “Cities of the Plain” 
 “No Country for Old Men” 
 “Outer Dark” 
 “Stella Maris” 
 “Suttree” 
 “The Border Trilogy” 
 “The Crossing” 
 “The Orchard Keeper” 
 “The Passenger” 
 “The Road” 
 “The Stonemason” 
 “The Sunset Limited”

Unique Writing Style:

Often described as 'dreamlike', McCarthy's prose relies on vivid, direct, almost scriptural
language stripped of all but the most necessary punctuation. If language is a lens (and it is),
McCarthy's is both wide-angle and macro, both blurred and sharp.

8. J. D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger, in full Jerome David Salinger, (born January 1, 1919, New York, New York,
U.S.—died January 27, 2010, Cornish, New Hampshire), American writer whose novel The
Catcher in the Rye (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post-
World War II generation of college students. His corpus of published works also consists of short
stories that were printed in magazines, including the The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire,
and The New Yorker.

Salinger was the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, and, like Holden Caulfield, the
hero of The Catcher in the Rye, he grew up in New York City, attending public schools and a
military academy. After brief periods at New York and Columbia universities, he devoted
himself entirely to writing, and his stories began to appear in periodicals in 1940. After
Salinger’s return from service in the U.S. Army (1942–46), his name and writing style became
increasingly associated with The New Yorker magazine, which published almost all of his later
stories. Some of the best of these made use of his wartime experiences: “For Esmé—with Love
and Squalor” (1950) describes a U.S. soldier’s poignant encounter with two British children; “A
Perfect Day for Bananafish” (1948) concerns the suicide of the sensitive, despairing veteran
Seymour Glass.

Works:
 “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” 
  “For Esme—with Love and Squalor” 
 “Franny and Zooey” 
 “Hapworth 16, 1924” 
 “The Catcher in the Rye”

Unique Writing Style:

JD Salinger has used a stream of consciousness writing style where the character (Holden
Caulfield) talks in first person as he presents his thoughts and feelings to the readers. The setting
has taken place in the early fifties and the book uses a lot of profane words.

9. Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss, pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel, (born March 2,
1904, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 24, 1991, La Jolla, California),
American writer and illustrator of immensely popular children’s books, which were noted for
their nonsense words, playful rhymes, and unusual creatures.

Works:  
 “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” 
 “Gerald McBoing Boing” 
 “Green Eggs and Ham” 
 “Horton Hatches the Egg” 
 “Horton Hears a Who!” 
 “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” 
 “The Cat in the Hat” “The Lorax”

Unique Writing Style:

Seuss is characterized by rhyme, colorful and imaginative characters, and the use of
anapestic meter. This kind of metrical foot is used in poetry and it consists of two short
syllables followed by one long syllable when in classical quantitative meter.

10. Jane Austen

Jane Austen, (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England—died July 18,
1817, Winchester, Hampshire), English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern
character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. She published four novels
during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield
Park (1814), and Emma (1815). In these and in Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (published
together posthumously, 1817), she vividly depicted English middle-class life during the early
19th century. Her novels defined the era’s novel of manners, but they also became timeless
classics that remained critical and popular successes for over two centuries after her death.

Works:  
  “Emma” 
 “Lady Susan” 
 “Mansfield Park” 
 “Northanger Abbey” 
 “Persuasion” 
  “Pride and Prejudice” 
 “Sense and Sensibility

Unique Writing Style:

Jane Austen's (1775–1817) distinctive literary style relies on a combination of parody,

burlesque, irony, free indirect speech and a degree of realism. She uses parody and burlesque
for comic effect and to critique the portrayal of women in 18th-century sentimental and Gothic
novels.