The tres books that I'm going to put on the style map are, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, The Mud Below by Annie Proulx, and Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy.
I would place Stardust at an elegant high, with precise denotation, and a middle sound that is neither hamonious and sweet nor discordant and bitter.
The Mud Below is poetic yet basic, it impliments common language with a simple country twang, and it has a sweet and musical sound.
In Cities of the Plain McCarthy uses a middle of the road language to both conotate and denotate during different parts of the novel, although the language implies messages, it is coarse and blunt, this low language always has a harsh, dull sound to it.
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