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by Mark Nichol Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive written communication.
50 Problem Words and Phrases
100 Exquisite Adjectives
by Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words.The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.
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