Style Mapping

In the excerpt from The Help, the language seems to be more in a connotative and musical tone.  The narrator talks in a low blunt and course way which conveys straightforward and literal.  Words are used such as "colic" and "chilluns." Chilluns is a slang term for children.  This is an example of why this excerpt is not a denotative tone.  On the other hand, Neil Gaimean's excerpt, Stardust, he uses a denotative and low tone.  His writing uses familiar and common words such as old, native, and treacherously.  The excerpt is very straightforward and literal as it explains the town of Wall.  Cormax McCathy's excerpt titled, Blood Meridian, is written in a poetic way that sounds very musical and harmonious.  That except is the most different compared to the past two passages I had read.  He used phrases such as "yond an endless swale" and "the sun that rises in the color of steel."  This creates a high tone that is elevated and ornate when describing objects such as the sun in the previous sentence.  All diction is different in the styles the author writes.