Fahrenheit 451

What is the author's style in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury?

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There are two main elements to note about the work's use of language, one of which might be defined as what is missing rather than what is present. Specifically, there is an engaging lack of what often handicaps novels that are either futuristic or set in other worlds, the often self-consciously clever attempts to fill the alternative world with inventive technologies, slang, or socio-moral conventions. Language used in both narration and dialogue has a timeless feel to it that includes, rather than impresses, the reader. Granted, there are terminologies and usages that exist only in the future world and not, as yet, in the contemporary world - Ear Thimbles or Ear Seashells and the Mechanical Hound are examples of terminologies and technologies outside of the contemporary norm, while usage and application of the terms "parlor" and "fireman" are also evolutions, or corruptions, of contemporary concepts. Again, however, the emphasis on the novel's language seems to be mostly on the day to day and the already extant, reinforcing its overall point of view that what happens in this future is beginning to happen now.