"THE SNIPER AUTHOR STYLE ANALYSIS

PLOT

• Reader is placed in the Irish Civil War.
• The main character is a sniper.

CONFLICT

• He keeps getting shot at
• He gets hit
• He needs to escape before dawn
• "He muttered, I'm hit!"

CHARACTERIZATION

• Makes an old lady a casualty
• Makes his brother the other sniper

SETTING

• On two short rooftops
• Behind enemy lines
• At night
• Dublin lay enveloped in darkness

IRONY

• The other sniper is his brother
• He tries to light a cigarette when he knows he will get caught
• Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's Face

POINT OF VIEW

• Shows the point of view of a young student
• Shows how he can't see where the other sniper is
• Description of the pain he goes through.

DICTION AND SOUND WORDS

• Is very descriptive
• Uses words that you don't see everyday