In terms of language form, modernist literature widely uses image metaphors, different styles, punctuation marks, spelling methods and arrangement forms to imply people's feelings, impressions and mental states.
Modernist literature does not pay attention to shaping typical characters with distinctive personalities, but focuses on the overall alienation of people, showing the overall alienation of people and society, people and things, people and nature, people and others, people and themselves.
Modernism pays special attention to the pursuit of novel and grotesque artistic expression in artistic form.
The above characteristics are mainly manifested in modernist literature such as symbolic poetry, stream-of-consciousness novels, absurd plays, surrealism and magical realism. (That is to say, modern literature pursues the author's self-concept and novelty, with various forms of expression and highlights the author's self-feeling)