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Situational Irony
Style
Explanation and Analysis:
Hannah develops The Nightingale with a raw, poetic, and matter-of-fact style of writing. She does not adopt a stream-of-consciousness prose but rather focuses on the perspectives of the novel’s primary characters, Isabelle and Vianne. Hannah regularly provides brief periods of background context in between her lines and scenes of dialogue, an authorial choice that fills out the story and ties it closely with its historical fiction roots. Her consistent use of figurative language—such as similes, metaphors, and highly descriptive concrete details—imbues the narrative with emotion, for The Nightingale is not an objective historical record, but a historical fiction novel.
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