Table of contents for Spunk & bite : a writer's guide to bold, contemporary style / Arthur Plotnik.

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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

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Authorship.
English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Style.