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: What is the literary device called for a "serious" pun? I ask this because I'm quoting a line from a song in my paper and the play on words is signifying something dark and somber, not something
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: Are using the adverbs gradually and greedily to describe the same verb contradicting? For example, the man eats greedily, gradually, with no hesitation
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: How to get more powerfull on expensive words? How to learn the powerful words, that usually gets the attention of readers first?
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: Why are one-word titles so dominant in books, film, and games? Something I talk about with friends when planning and sharing our projects & media we like is titles - and specifically my
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: Should I avoid "big words" when writing to a younger audience? I was writing the other day and I used the word "ubiquitous". While I don't think "ubiquitous" is the most egregious example
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: Is it the right call to title my romance a 'legend'? I am writing a book and I plan to call it "Legend of (name of the protagonist)". But I'm writing in first person (protagonist). Searching
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: How do you use the interjection for snorting? How do you use the interjection for snorting? I was told that "snort" is an onomatopoeia, but I disagree. "Haha" and "Heh heh" would be onomatopoeia,
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: Is there a convention about the use of Old English in Hymns? Is it wrong to modernise the words? Although most hymns were written in earlier centuries, I notice that modern-day collections of
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: Is there any popular wisdom on the word "seem"? I've just started noticing this word a lot in books. Something about it rubs me the wrong way. For example, I read a book where the following
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: Should I use the words "pyromancy" and "necromancy" even if they don't mean what people think they do? If you look up the exact definition for "pyromancy" or "necromancy" they refer to divination
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: Autobiography vs Perspective When discussing the life story (fictional/non-fictional) of an inanimate object (like a brick not AI), is it appropriate to claim this endeavor as an autobiography of
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: A torrent of foreign terms I am writing a short story, about a particular field with multiple specific terms, none of which are in English. (Specifically, I'm writing about bullfighting, but
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: A pulse, a throb, and a beat I wrote a passage where one of my characters heard beats, (i.e., the sound) then he found the beating object and, when he held it in his hand, it started throbbing
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: How do I sound like Thanos when I write? This is really a dumb question but as a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I have watched Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame so many
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: What effect does compounding bring when used in the title of a song, poem, story? What effect does compounding bring when used in the title of a song, poem, story? Sometimes, you see word
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: Is there any tool that gives us a list of verbs often used with a certain word? Is there any tool that gives you a list of verbs often used with a certain word? Sometimes, you forget certain
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: Preferred word for "preferred", "target", "chosen" in end user support documentation I'm having trouble finding and sticking to one word to indicate whatever value the user intends to use with
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: Using “sparkling†as a diminutive of “spark†in a poem How would you react if you saw the word “sparkling†being used as a diminutive of “spark†in a poem? Although poetry does
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: A flower's head or heart? I’m currently writing a story and one of my characters is a butterfly. In one of the scenes, she manages to run away from a bunch of hungry lizards and hides
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: Does the word 'authored by' imply the non-existence of co-authors? In an article I'm co-authoring, I'm about to say the following: ... d is the number of articles authored by John Doe ...
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: How do I improve my "impact" in writing? I don't know the exact word for it, but I hope I make it clear what I mean by "impact" soon. My favorite pieces of writing are Rosa Luxemburg's
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: How is simplicity better than precision and clarity in prose? Many recommend the Hemingway app, which pushes simplicity and the lowest possible reading level. Where I live, an illiterate person
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: Writing based on the context or theme I'm totally new to this field as well as this site and going to learn on my own and need a direction for this specific area I want to learn. I want
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: Using rhythm to evoke emotion When writing there is one area I am not great at leveraging. That's rhythm or meter. I don't hear meter naturally like some people do so I have to really break
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: Writing effectively under very brief constraints I recently noticed a trend to a few of my questions. I am attracted to writing in places with extreme brevity. This makes sense to me on a
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: Sentence starters for summaries? I'm writing a technical book (step-by-step sort of book) and noticed that all my summaries start with 'In this chapter we ...'. What would be some other sentence
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: How do I stop using 'the' to start sentences so much? Something that always bothers me in my writing is how often I start sentences with the word "the". A terrible nonsensical example:
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: Are there situations where using an anastrophe is ill-advised? I wrote a (unrhymed) couplet, because I couldn't find a good enough example: She ran the comb through her hair ebony As
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: What are some of the tricks used to end a verse with a specific word? I guess the answer depends on whether the word is an adverb, noun, adjective, or verb. When I write a poem, I often
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: Is it redundant to use "billowing winds" and "petulant waves" in the same sentence? "The ship sailed through the billowing winds and the petulant waves." Is it redundant? Because, if I
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: Is it ok to use "aluminium" in an otherwise American English text? I am not an American English native (I'm actually a German native speaker) but, when I write, I use the American style of
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: Is the sentence "Love not self - love no one" easily understandable to an English reader? This question is not about syntactical correctness. I do not care about that. The only thing I care
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: "Ocular" versus "Optical" I am writing a SciFi novel in which military officers have electronic lenses implanted in their eyes to act as a tactical overlay. It is likely of little consequence,
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: How to determine which details are important enough to be mentioned in a text-based roleplay? I have recently joined a real-time chat-based roleplay group. Most of the people seem to be sticking
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: Repetitive sentences How do I start off sentences without them being too repetitive and boring? I have a problem of starting a sentence with something like "The person" and end up using "The
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: Using real words from a foreign culture feels like 'Calling a rabbit a "smeerp"' I'm working on a novel, that's set in pre-Islamic Persia, in the same general way that The Lord of the Rings
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: What are good techniques to describe eyes? I would like to describe the beautiful brown eyes of a character, much like a real-life friend of mine. Are there good techniques for describing eyes?
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: What do you call a self-liberated slave? In my story, Tsidia is a slave who managed to inspire people into making slavery illegal, thus setting her free. Is there a word I can use to describe
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: How to write good email for applying leaves I want to write polite mail for applying leaves. As of now I have written this, I am going wrong please correct me or suggest better way to do
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: Coining words - when and how? Writing an answer to another question, I stumbled upon a quote from The Hobbit: Bilbo rushed along the passage, very angry, and altogether bewildered and bewuthered
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