Date:         Sun, 14 Dec 1997 12:39:23 EST
From: A Big Bowl of Cybernuts <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      EXERCISE: Some Writeous Words...

Each day for the next week (or so, if you need more time), take one of
the following words.

(optional step--If you are like me, look up the word to make sure you
have the meaning(s) well in hand (sometimes when I look up a word in
the dictionaries, the meanings aren't quite what I thought they
were...maybe someone changed them when I wasn't watching?)  Be aware
that it may take a little more hunting than usual to find the
definitions of these words.  If you already know what the word means,
obliviously enough, you won't knead to look it up!)

Then use it, abuse it, make it a part of your writer's toolkit...

1. prolepsis
2. anastrophe
3. aposiopesis
4. enjambment
5. anaphora
6. polysyndeton
7. apophasis

with thanks to A.W.A.D. (the mailing list).  For more details about
this wonderful service, see http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/

Simple, right?

Just a word a day keeps the fingers at play?
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[having trouble finding definitions?  here's a few...just match them
up...oops?  there's a couple of extra ones...okay, for bonus points,
find the words to match the extra meanings!]

The repetition of connectives or conjunctions in close succession for
rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere.

Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: To
market went she.

The continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to
the next.

1: unduly prolonged or drawn out 2: given to verbosity and diffuseness
in speaking or writing

1. The anticipation and answering of an objection or argument before
one's opponent has put it forward. 2. The use of a descriptive word in
anticipation of the act or circumstances that would make it
applicable.

Allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned, as in I
will not bring up my opponent's questionable financial dealings.

1: to foreshadow vaguely : INTIMATE 2a: to give a sketchy
representation or outline of 2b: to suggest or disclose partially 3:
SHADE, OBSCURE

The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of
several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs.

A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as
though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.

Date:         Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:19:52 EST
From: The Ultimate Novelty <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      EXERCISE: Some Writeous Words (the extras)

oops...back a while, around Dec. 14, I posted a list of meanings to
match up with words, and there were some extra meanings without
matching words.  In case anyone is still wondering, the extra words
were:

prolix
adumbrate

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