Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Language: English
Published by Broadway, 1999
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- Title
- Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
- Author
- Hale, Constance
- Publisher
- Broadway
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0767903080
- ISBN 13
- 9780767903080
Today's writers need more spunk than Strunk. Whether crafted for the Great American Novel, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Now, from copy veteran Constance Hale comes a fun, informative, indispensable guide to taking your writing from ordinary to extraordinary.
Sin and Syntax is more than just a style manual with examinations of sentence structure and parts of speech. In addition to spelling out the basic rules, Constance Hale teaches you when—and how—to effectively break them. Chock full of examples from traditional and nontraditional prose—from advertising jingles to song lyrics to literary classics—Sin and Syntax shows you why learning to "sin" will make you a better writer. Discover how to:
Distinguish between words that are "pearls" and words that are "potatoes"
Innovate with adjectives to avoid clichés
Avoid "couch potato thinking" and "com-mitment phobia" when choosing verbs
Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor
PLUS—You'll learn:
How Rich Little boosted his comedy career with the perfected use of one particular interjection
Why Muhammad Ali's syntactically surprising speech worked as well as his jabs
Which famous opening line from American literature contains no subject whatsoever
A perfect display of Hale's own literary principles, Sin and Syntax, with its clear, crisp, modern approach to style, will be an essential guide for all those who want to improve their command of the English language.
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