Style
Of Plymouth Plantation
by William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation: Style 1 key example

Book 2, Chapter 2
Explanation and Analysis:

Of Plymouth Plantation is written as a journal, being a (purportedly) accurate retelling of the events befalling settlers at Plymouth Plantation. Stylistically, this category of writing shares much in common with epistolary fiction. In fact, during the time period in which Of Plymouth Plantation was written—and during the following time periods, when European empires were expanding globally—it was fairly common to see "true accounts" or journal-style books detailing adventures abroad. Many of these supposed true accounts were falsified or entirely fictionalized.