What is the author's style in Fallout by Ellen Hopkins?

The language of the novel is English. The novel is written in verse and therefore the language occasional rhymes or contains words that are used more for their imagery than for anything else. The author strives to use words that the intended audience will understand easily, but that also works with the verse in which she is writing. For this reason there will appear in some of the stanzas words that a young reader might not be readily familiar with, but that is still easily defined by its use in the verse.