Describing TONE
Is the tone of your book humorous and light, playful and whimsical? Or is it dark, somber, disdainful and at times even morbid? Or perhaps it is impartial, objective, informative, and completely candid? Perhaps you admire writers who are dramatic, urgent, ones who highlight the violent and turgid emotions? Or maybe you're more in the mood for some effusive,poetic, lyrical writing laden with imagery?
Which of your teachers speaks to you with a pedantic, factual tone? Which of your teachers is always loving, reassuring in tone? Do you have friends who speak in a pretentious tone? Do you and your friends have colloquial language? Would you say your vocabulary is sophomoric? Are you feeling lugubrious today?
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
January 9 Words of the Day
Atavistic
Although he didn't want to kill, his atavistic instinct kicked in as his attacker raised the knife. - A. Goelz
The husband's atavisitc, feral brutality kicked in when his mate was threatened by an intruder. - L. Wolfson
His atavistic eating style drove the young ladies away, angering his hopeless friends. - Jack P-W
The mother had an atavistic urge to protect her son from the charging rhino. - N. Robinson
Hubris
Many people have enough hubris to think they are more powerful than the inexorable power of nature. - E. Comstock
Humans act with hubris when they dismiss earlier humans as being merely atavistic.- Z. Sonett
Acting with hubris, he strode up to the Parthenon and signalled for the wrecking ball to strike.l - M. Hausamann
He showed hubris when he said he was better than Poseidon. - G. Derr
Inexorable
Manifest Destiny was inexorable; train tracks snaked through the Great Plains and towns sprouted out almost everywhere. - R. Meagher
Macbeth was an inexorable force in his fight for the crown. - Vangelder and Carlson
The avalanche pounded inexorably down the mountain.- G. Wright
The inexorable masses of homework keep me awake all night. - Liv Salinger
Ethereal
When she played piano, she would play like an ethereal angel. - J. Sagebiel
I have an atavistic urge to howl at the ethereal moon. - S. Yarker
Riley Venne frolicked in the meadows with his ethereal fairy friends. - C. Yamane
The stars glinted ethereally in the night sky. - M. Smith
The light reflecting from the crystal into the glass room was ethereal. - S. Cooney
Although he didn't want to kill, his atavistic instinct kicked in as his attacker raised the knife. - A. Goelz
The husband's atavisitc, feral brutality kicked in when his mate was threatened by an intruder. - L. Wolfson
His atavistic eating style drove the young ladies away, angering his hopeless friends. - Jack P-W
The mother had an atavistic urge to protect her son from the charging rhino. - N. Robinson
Hubris
Many people have enough hubris to think they are more powerful than the inexorable power of nature. - E. Comstock
Humans act with hubris when they dismiss earlier humans as being merely atavistic.- Z. Sonett
Acting with hubris, he strode up to the Parthenon and signalled for the wrecking ball to strike.l - M. Hausamann
He showed hubris when he said he was better than Poseidon. - G. Derr
Inexorable
Manifest Destiny was inexorable; train tracks snaked through the Great Plains and towns sprouted out almost everywhere. - R. Meagher
Macbeth was an inexorable force in his fight for the crown. - Vangelder and Carlson
The avalanche pounded inexorably down the mountain.- G. Wright
The inexorable masses of homework keep me awake all night. - Liv Salinger
Ethereal
When she played piano, she would play like an ethereal angel. - J. Sagebiel
I have an atavistic urge to howl at the ethereal moon. - S. Yarker
Riley Venne frolicked in the meadows with his ethereal fairy friends. - C. Yamane
The stars glinted ethereally in the night sky. - M. Smith
The light reflecting from the crystal into the glass room was ethereal. - S. Cooney
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The Power of WORDS
Creative, Powerful, Persuasive, Intriguing, Exceptional, Stupendous.
Be all those things: learn more WORDS
Coming up on this blog will be instructions and a copious amount of words that you choose, I choose, we choose, and also lots of ways that we devise to practice them.
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