Voice crafting
The deliberate construction of a character's or narrator's distinctive voice through lexical choices, sentence structure, speech patterns, and unique perspective. Voice crafting creates individual characterisation.
Real World
Holden Caulfield's voice in The Catcher in the Rye — with its repeated colloquialisms ('phoney', 'it really did'), syntactic fragments, and conspiratorial address — is so precisely crafted that readers immediately detect any passage written by a different author attempting to imitate it.
Exam Focus
Quote lexical and syntactic choices together as a pattern — voice is cumulative, not a single feature, so show how choices consistently construct persona.
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