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Creative writing devices.(Young Writer's Workshop)
Instructor (1990)
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March 1, 1998|
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"Let the rain kiss you..." This unforgettable line from Langston Hughes's "April Rain Song" demonstrates why writers rely on devices such as personification. Figures of speech, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and other word play help writers create energy and atmosphere in their writing. As your students learn about and begin to notice these devices in the material they read, you'll begin to see the same techniques appearing in their writing - writing that is more focused, expressive, and alive.
Introducing Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical devices enliven students' ...
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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian...Fifty years after her death, Aimee Semple McPherson continues to fascinate. Readers...Refrigerator and the Wildfire': Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostalism, and the Fundamentalist...
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Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; Aimee Semple McPherson has been the subject of numerous fictional treatments...a phenomenally successful religious movement. In Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), Daniel Mark Epstein has...
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Aimee's America.(Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...AWAKE!" Thus did evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson rouse interwar audiences to...political territory. Even if McPherson did not directly inspire them...Protestants' political concerns. Aimee Semple McPherson was born in 1890 near Ingersoll...
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Aimee Semple McPherson and the resurrection of Christian America.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...1017/S0009640708001352 Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian...smoothed out and perpetuated. Aimee Semple McPherson's aggressively modern version...writes for a wide audience. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian...
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Chasing Aimee.(perjury case of Aimee Semple McPherson)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...The line first was uttered by Aimee Semple McPherson, the 20th century's most celebrated...the minister known as Sister Aimee endured what Monica Lewinsky...dropped the case of The People v. Aimee Semple McPherson. A 22-city "vindication tour...
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Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson.
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
; ...Americans knew something about Aimee Semple McPherson, the Canadian-born evangelist...biography that relies heavily on McPherson's own stories about herself...Noting that most writings on McPherson have emphasized either the controversial...
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Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review
; AIMEE Semple McPherson, the evangelist, healer, and prophetess...her? Epstein's hedge is that Sister Aimee believed He did--and it is the psychic...strength as well as its weakness. Sister Aimee emerges as an unlikely yet compelling...
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"Between the refrigerator and the wildfire": Aimee Semple McPherson, pentecostalism, and the fundamentalist-modernist controversy (1).
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...had rediscovered. (2) Or so Aimee Semple McPherson testified in the 1920s in an...audience. In earlier narratives, McPherson offered a simpler story of her...noteworthy because it reveals McPherson's efforts to broaden her message...
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New Book Profiles Sister Aimee McPherson
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...DAVIS, Host: In 1890, when Aimee Semple McPherson was just weeks old, her...Roosevelt, and P.T. Barnum. AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON: [tape segment of meeting...thousands of people responded to Aimee Semple McPherson and her gifts - her trombone...
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OBITUARY: Roberta Semple Salter.(Features)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...questions about Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, who had last been...ardent admirer of Aimee, had been missing...Stanwyck. Roberta Star Semple was born in Hong Kong...time of darkness. Aimee married William McPherson, but their relationship...
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