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Title: A Farewell To Arms
Words: 541
A Farewell to Arms: Style Critics usually describe
Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic. These
are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his
training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the
declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has
been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of lefts
and rights coming at us without pause. Take the following
passage: We were all cooked. The thing was not to
recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked
would win the war. We had another drink. Was I on
somebody's staff? No. He was. It was all balls. The style
gains power because it is so full of sensory detail. There was
an inn in the trees at the Bains de l'Allaiz where the
woodcutters stopped to dr ...
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