Style Mapping

In Cormac McCarthy's excerpt from "Blood Meridian" he writes in a picturesque, metaphoric connotative language. While in Neil Gaiman's excerpt from "Stardust" has a low but blunt and familiar language. "Stardust" could also be described as denotative because of it's straight-forwardness and literal characterization. Despite they're differences they both can create a picture in your mind but the way McCarthy does it is contrasting from how Gaiman does it. McCarthy creates pictures in the mind by similes, metaphors and poetic devices; while Gaiman is very common and edgeless when describing things.  Ron McLarthy's novel "the Memory of Running" is common and lacking picturesque, very bland and basic. It is descriptive but in a dull way of listing. None of these excerpts/novels portray any elevated or fancy language but more of an elementary and figurative way of writing.