The well-spoken thesaurus : the most powerful ways to say everyday words and phrases / Tom Heehler.

By:

Heehler, Tom

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2011.Description: 391 p. ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781402243059
1402243057

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Dictionaries.

DDC classification:

423/.12 22

LOC classification:

PE1591 H458w 2011

Contents:

On Becoming Articulate Rhetorical Form and Design Lesson 1. T.S. Eliot Lesson 2. Margaret Atwood Lesson 3. Ernest Hemingway Lesson 4. Cormac McCarthy Lesson 5. John Steinbeck Lesson 6. Norman Mailer Lesson 7. Edith Wharton Lesson 8. E.B. White Lesson 9. J.M. Coetzee Lesson 10. John Steinbeck Lesson 11. Barbara Kingsolver Lesson 12. Joshua Ferris Lesson 13. Ken Kesey Lesson 14. Martin Luther King, Jr Lesson 15. Henry James Lesson 16. Barack Obama Lesson 17. Cintra Wilson The Well-Spoken Vocabulary The Seven Rhetorical Sins How This Book Works Preamble The Well-Spoken Thesaurus 200 Well-Spoken Alternatives to Common Words and Phrases

Summary: If you've ever fumbled while trying to use a big word* (*lofty, pretentious word) to impress a crowd, you know what it's like to* (*what it is to) be poorly spoken. The fear of mispronouncing or misusing complex words is real and leaves many of us consigned to the lower levels* (*lower echelons) of the English Language. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is your guide to eloquence, replacing the ordinary with the extraordinary.

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On Becoming Articulate
Rhetorical Form and Design
Lesson 1. T.S. Eliot
Lesson 2. Margaret Atwood
Lesson 3. Ernest Hemingway
Lesson 4. Cormac McCarthy
Lesson 5. John Steinbeck
Lesson 6. Norman Mailer
Lesson 7. Edith Wharton
Lesson 8. E.B. White
Lesson 9. J.M. Coetzee
Lesson 10. John Steinbeck
Lesson 11. Barbara Kingsolver
Lesson 12. Joshua Ferris
Lesson 13. Ken Kesey
Lesson 14. Martin Luther King, Jr
Lesson 15. Henry James
Lesson 16. Barack Obama
Lesson 17. Cintra Wilson
The Well-Spoken Vocabulary
The Seven Rhetorical Sins
How This Book Works
Preamble
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
200 Well-Spoken Alternatives to Common Words and Phrases

If you've ever fumbled while trying to use a big word* (*lofty, pretentious word) to impress a crowd, you know what it's like to* (*what it is to) be poorly spoken. The fear of mispronouncing or misusing complex words is real and leaves many of us consigned to the lower levels* (*lower echelons) of the English Language. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is your guide to eloquence, replacing the ordinary with the extraordinary.

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