moore on style - vissi d'arte.

please note, i have no idea how to actually pronounce that title. i thought it was french, but i thought wrong.
moore uses four main things that constitute her style. first is a play on words (pow). second is Lampshading. third and fourth are a mix--they come as The Exception (in case of ignorance) or Extreme Normality (in most cases).

• pow - "in the land of perversities, he had maintained the perversity of refusal" (moore 20).
• Lampshading - "she liked getting her hands on the insides of a thing. it had to do with her childhood" (20).
• te/en - "...the wrenching yet life-affirming death of his great-aunt flora...whose dying word had been 'cripes.'" (22)
• en - "...but the reception was bad because he and breckie lived too close to the empire state building, the waves shooting out over them and missing the apartment altogether" (23).
• en - "he...preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements" (24).
• te - "'i said, something wonderful. say something about springtime.' 'it is sloppy and wet. it is a beast from the sea.'" (25)

the last case is more of an unexpected answer than The Exception, but it still fits.