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Contents Introduction Flexibility / A Little Light Unstrunktion One / E.B. Whitewashed: A Starting Point Freshness / The Wallop of the New Two / The Pleasures of Surpise Three / Extreme Expression Four / Writers? Words, Drop by Dottle Five / Upgrading Your Colors Six / Joltingly Fresh Adverbs Texture / Writing into the Mood Seven / Tense: A Sticky Choice Eight / Diction: We Are the Words Nine / The Punchy Trope Word / Language?Aerobatic and Incandescent Ten / How to Loot a Thesaurus Eleven / Words with Music and Sploosh Twelve / Coining the Bonne Locution Thirteen / Words with Foreign Umami Force / Stimulation by Any Means Fourteen / Dialogue Tags with Oomph Fifteen / Enallage: A Fun Grammatical Get Sixteen / Intensifiers for the Feeble Seventeen / Opening Words: The Glorious Portal Eighteen / Closings: The Three-Point Landing Form / Life Between the Marks Nineteen / The Joys of Hyper-Hyphenation Twenty / A License. To Fragment. Sentences. Twenty-One / The Poetry of Lists Twenty-Two / The Art of the Semicolon Twenty-Three / Daringly Quoteless Dialogue Clarity / ?A House of Great Spickness and Spanness? Twenty-Four / The Feng Shui of Writing Twenty-Five / Hunting Down Danglers Twenty-Six / Magic in the Names of Things Twenty-Seven / The Earnestly Engaging Sentence Contemporaneity / A Leg up on the Competition Twenty-Eight / Writing for New Generations Twenty-Nine / Hot Pop and Ephemeragy Thirty / Edge: Writing at the Nervy Limits Thirty-One / Parting Words: Butterflies in the Killing Fields Exercises for Practice and Study Index
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English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Style.