精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上The Iceberg Theory (also known as the theory of omission) is the writing style of American writer Ernest Hemingway. In 1932, in Death in the afternoon, Hemingway used an effective metaphor to describe his writing style for the first time: The dignity of an iceberg is due to only oneeighth of it being above waters.one eighth of it is above the water, all of the rest is impliedIf a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows a
