Grammar and Literary Style in Shashi Deshpande's Novels

In fiction, style occupies a prominent position in expressing the views of author in an attractive way. Among plot, character, theme and setting, style is taken to be one of the inherent constituents of fiction. Each writer has his/her own unique style of writing which shows the verbal identity of the writer. Literary style consists of elements like sentence structure, pace, expansive diction, vocabulary, figure of speech, use of dialogue, point of view, character development, tone, use of words (word sound), paragraph/ chapter structure, time sequencing/ chronology, allusion, experimentation in language and meta-fictional techniques.