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Literary Techniques In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road

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Cormac McCarthy has a unique writing style in comparison to standard novels. Typically, novels have varying sentence structure and distinct separations of dialogue between characters and narration. Though, in The Road, descriptions and dialogue blend together, as there is no punctuation, and rarely a formatting change, to help distinguish the two pieces. Furthermore, McCarthy utilizes a style that is more suitable to poems than novels. The sentence lengths, like in many poems, are almost uniform and typically follow short, direct approaches. Moreover, nearly all of his sentences are simple in structure, consisting of only one independent clause, with the occasional dependent clause added to the mix. However, despite the straightforwardness

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