[stylist] Word Help

[Barbara HAMMEL]

I'm writing a poem and I need help with a word. I think it's usually called your voice when you choose what kind of vocabulary you want to use like whether you will choose big, fancy words, or small words or will you write whimsically or angrily. I don't think "lexicon" works but I can't think of a better word because voice is too vague for this, at least right now. If it helps painting is the metaphor I am using for writing. Barbara Hammel