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WORDS ABOUT WORDS: study of words. Includes word formation, classifications, form, usage, and literary, poetic and rhetorical devices.
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THE WRITER’S CRAFT
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THE ART OF WRITING
The Components of Fiction Components of Poetry
- The Puffer and Blotter Scriptorium Showdown - Obscure words for writing
- The Business of Writing and Publishing
- Typing the Typeface of Writing Types
- Watch Your Tone of Voice
- A Colloquial Caravan of Communication
The Components of Fiction Components of Poetry
- Paradox of Puns - The Poetic Devices
- Setting the Poetic Meter to Flow
- Rocking the Boat of Structure and Form
- The Ages of a Poetry Movement
- The Rhythm and Rhyme of Rhyming Slang
- Alliteration of Ambiguity - Literary Devices
- Rhetorical Rhapsody - Rhetorical Devices
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- Figuring Out the Figures of Speech
WATCH YOUR
Tone of Voice & State Your Intentions!
Tone is the attitude and mood of a literary work. It gives voice to the characters.
Emotional Reactions from Tone
This complex relationship starts in your amygdala, which is where your brain processes emotions. It’s theorized that it interacts with the visual cortex and the frontal cortex (a.k.a. where your decision-making comes from) to produce the relationship between emotion and the written word. So you see the words on the page, interpret their meaning, add a layer of emotional context, and that engenders words with emotional meaning.
- Tone in writing is conveyed by both the choices of words and the narrator of the story.
- Tone also allows the reader to learn about a character's personality and disposition.
- Tone shapes the work as a whole (serious, funny, dramatic or upsetting).
- Tone gives much more context beyond the words used.
Emotional Reactions from Tone
This complex relationship starts in your amygdala, which is where your brain processes emotions. It’s theorized that it interacts with the visual cortex and the frontal cortex (a.k.a. where your decision-making comes from) to produce the relationship between emotion and the written word. So you see the words on the page, interpret their meaning, add a layer of emotional context, and that engenders words with emotional meaning.
Setting the Tone
Examples of Emotional Context
ABASHED - ashamed or embarrassed
ABHORRENT - to regard with extreme aversion; to loathe, or detest.
ABSTRUSE - difficult to understand
ACERBIC - sharp; forthright; biting
ACRIMONIOUS -angry and bitter
AFFABLE - Friendly; easy to talk to
AGGRIEVED - indignant; annoyed
APATHETIC - showing little interest
ARDENT - passionate; fervent; intensely devoted, eager
BENEVOLENT - sympathetic; tolerant
BLITHE - joyous, merry in disposition; glad; cheerful
CALLOUS - cruel
CAPRICIOUS - flighty; led by whims; erratic
CENSORIOUS - severely critical; faultfinding
CHOLERIC - extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible
CHURLISH - critical or harsh in a mean-spirited way
COLLOQUIAL - familiar
CONCILIATORY - Trying to make someone feel better
CONFOUNDED - confused or perplexed
DIABOLIC - devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked.
DIDACTIC - instructive
DIFFIDENT - lacking confidence, timid; shy
DOGMATIC- opinionated
EBULLIENT - high-spirited
EFFETE - over-refined
EFFUSIVE - unreserved or unduly demonstrative.
ELEGIAC - expressing sorrow or lamentation.
EMOTIVE - exciting emotion.
EXECRABLE - detestable
FACETIOUS - sarcastic
FARCICAL - ludicrous; absurd; humorous and highly improbable
FATUOUS - silly yet smug
FLIPPANT - superficial; glib; shallow
FRACTIOUS - irritable
FULSOME - insincere
HAPLESS - luckless; unfortunate.
HISTRIONIC - over the top dramatic
HOLLOW - meaningless; insincere or false.
IMPERIOUS - domineering
INANE - silly, flippant
INSOUCIANT - carefree, nonchalant
IRASCIBLE - easily provoked to anger; very irritable
JOCUND - cheerful; merry; blithe; glad
LAUDATORY - praising; recommending
LUGUBRIOUS - mournful, dismal, or gloomy
MACABRE - gruesome; horrifying
MAWKISH - insincerely emotional
MIRTHFUL - joyous; jolly; arousing or provoking laughter
OBDURATE - stubborn; unyielding
ORATORICAL - given to making speeches
OBSEQUIOUS - overly obedient or submissive
PEDANTIC - ostentatious in one’s learning
PENITENT - sorrow, contrite
PRAGMATIC - realistic; sensible
QUERULOUS- peevish
RECALCITRANT - resisting authority; not obedient or compliant
REPROBATE - without scruples
REVERENT - deep respect
RIOTOUS - Boisterous
RISIBLE - laughable; ludicrous
SANGUINE - cheerfully hopeful, or confident
SAPIENT - wise
SCATHING - critical; stinging
SENTENTIOUS - pompous moralizing
SOPHOMORIC - intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited
SUPERCILIOUS - disdainful or contemptuous
TENDENTIOUS - biased
TIMOROUS -full of fear; fearful
VEXED - irritated; annoyed
VITRIOLIC - very caustic; scathing
ZEALOUS - ardently active, devoted, or diligent
ABHORRENT - to regard with extreme aversion; to loathe, or detest.
ABSTRUSE - difficult to understand
ACERBIC - sharp; forthright; biting
ACRIMONIOUS -angry and bitter
AFFABLE - Friendly; easy to talk to
AGGRIEVED - indignant; annoyed
APATHETIC - showing little interest
ARDENT - passionate; fervent; intensely devoted, eager
BENEVOLENT - sympathetic; tolerant
BLITHE - joyous, merry in disposition; glad; cheerful
CALLOUS - cruel
CAPRICIOUS - flighty; led by whims; erratic
CENSORIOUS - severely critical; faultfinding
CHOLERIC - extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible
CHURLISH - critical or harsh in a mean-spirited way
COLLOQUIAL - familiar
CONCILIATORY - Trying to make someone feel better
CONFOUNDED - confused or perplexed
DIABOLIC - devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked.
DIDACTIC - instructive
DIFFIDENT - lacking confidence, timid; shy
DOGMATIC- opinionated
EBULLIENT - high-spirited
EFFETE - over-refined
EFFUSIVE - unreserved or unduly demonstrative.
ELEGIAC - expressing sorrow or lamentation.
EMOTIVE - exciting emotion.
EXECRABLE - detestable
FACETIOUS - sarcastic
FARCICAL - ludicrous; absurd; humorous and highly improbable
FATUOUS - silly yet smug
FLIPPANT - superficial; glib; shallow
FRACTIOUS - irritable
FULSOME - insincere
HAPLESS - luckless; unfortunate.
HISTRIONIC - over the top dramatic
HOLLOW - meaningless; insincere or false.
IMPERIOUS - domineering
INANE - silly, flippant
INSOUCIANT - carefree, nonchalant
IRASCIBLE - easily provoked to anger; very irritable
JOCUND - cheerful; merry; blithe; glad
LAUDATORY - praising; recommending
LUGUBRIOUS - mournful, dismal, or gloomy
MACABRE - gruesome; horrifying
MAWKISH - insincerely emotional
MIRTHFUL - joyous; jolly; arousing or provoking laughter
OBDURATE - stubborn; unyielding
ORATORICAL - given to making speeches
OBSEQUIOUS - overly obedient or submissive
PEDANTIC - ostentatious in one’s learning
PENITENT - sorrow, contrite
PRAGMATIC - realistic; sensible
QUERULOUS- peevish
RECALCITRANT - resisting authority; not obedient or compliant
REPROBATE - without scruples
REVERENT - deep respect
RIOTOUS - Boisterous
RISIBLE - laughable; ludicrous
SANGUINE - cheerfully hopeful, or confident
SAPIENT - wise
SCATHING - critical; stinging
SENTENTIOUS - pompous moralizing
SOPHOMORIC - intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited
SUPERCILIOUS - disdainful or contemptuous
TENDENTIOUS - biased
TIMOROUS -full of fear; fearful
VEXED - irritated; annoyed
VITRIOLIC - very caustic; scathing
ZEALOUS - ardently active, devoted, or diligent
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