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Amazing alliteration and whiz-bang onomatopoeia: use these tools to add punch to your prose! (Power of Words).
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Words don't just have meanings. They have sounds, as well. Sometimes writers can make sounds work with meanings to create engaging, memorable writing.
Two common sound devices writers use are onomatopoeia--words whose sounds suggest their meanings--and alliteration--the repetition of a first sound several times within a few words.
RINGING ONOMATOPOEIA
Do you love the way your boots crunch as you cross a frozen field of snow?
Does the screech of chalk on a blackboard make you shudder?
Words like quack, squeal, rumble, croak, ...
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Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question and the Victorian Novel.
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Anna Nicole Smith's will: a tragedy in many acts: it may be years before we know what becomes of Anna Nicole's vast estate. In the meantime, here is some informed speculation.
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; Ancient Greeks would add the tale of Anna Nicole's death to the ranks of Oedipus...Antigone. It would read something like this: Anna Nicole, after spending her life trying...allegations of drug abuse. Just months later, Anna Nicole dies of an alleged drug overdose...
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Anna and the Buttonheads
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; One fall day, Mom dropped Anna at Aunt Susan's house while she took Bobby to the doctor. Anna loved visiting Aunt Susan. They always did fun crafts together. On one of the end tables, Anna saw a bright red sweater. Beside it were five...
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; LAS VEGAS -- As Anna's Linens pursues a pumped up expansion...saturated as its base. Indeed, the opening of Anna's 100th store here last week was ripe...of evolution. The new Vegas store--Anna's fifth in the city--marked the debut...
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ANNA health policy statement. (ANNA Position Statements).
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; Preamble ANNA is a national organization of registered...processes that require replacement therapies. ANNA supports the multidisciplinary approach...care. As a professional organization, ANNA has the obligation to set and update standards...
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