1. Text structure in the belleslettres style

2. General terms
 The belles- letters style is a generic term for three
substyles in which the main principles and the most
general properties of the style are materialized.
These three substyles are:
Language
of poetry
Language
of fiction
Language
of drama

3. The belles-letters style rests on certain indispensable
linguistic features which are:
 1. Genuine
 2. The use of words in contextual and very often in more
than one dictionary meaning
 3. A vocabulary which will reflect to a greater or lesser
degree the author’s personal evaluation of things or
phenomena.
 4. A peculiar individual selection of vocabulary and
syntax.
 5. The introduction of the typical features of colloquial
language to a full degree, (in plays or a lesser one in
emotive prose) or a slight degree, if any (in poems).

4. The language of poetry and drama
 Verse has a property, which is based mainly on the
rhythmic and phonetic arrangement of the
utterances.

5.  The language of plays in the belles-letters is that
unlike poetry, which except for ballads, in essence
excludes direct speech and therefore dialogue, and
unlike emotive prose, which is a combination of
monologue and dialogue, the language of plays is
entirely dialogue.