25 great sentences and how they got that way

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"25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way is for word lovers, readers interested in encountering new authors or revisiting favorite works, and aspiring writers. The author, a master English teacher at Horace Mann for several decades, leads readers on a delightful tour of sentences by authors in the canon, using deft analysis and humor to "look under the hood" and allow us to see what makes a sentence great." -- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9781324004851

Edition:

First edition

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pages cm

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Twenty-five great sentences and how they got that way

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part I: structure. Pocket: Viginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Crossed sentence: John F. Kennedy, inaugural address
Parallelism: Li-Young, "From Blossoms"
Reversed sentences: Yoda, Star wars
Surprise: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Questions: Judy Blume, Are you there God? It's me, Margaret
Part II: diction. Valuable verbs: Red Smith, "Dizzy Deans day"
Tone: Shirley Jackson, The lottery
Word shifts: James Joyce, Ulysses
Coinage: Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird sings
Part III: sound. Onomatopoeia: Watty Piper, The little engine that could
Matching sounds: Martín Espada, "Alabanza: in praise of local 100"
Repetition: Jack Kerouac, On the road
Part IV: connection/comparison. First person: J. D. Salinger, The catcher in the rye
Second person: Lorrie Moore, "A kid's guide to divorce"
Contrast: Neil Armstrong, first words on the moon
Negativity: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the world and me
Creative descriptions: Barbara Kingsolver, "Where it all begain"
Part V: extremes. Marathon sentences: Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Simplicity: Ann Beattie, "Learning to fall"
Contradiction: Margaret Atwood, "Orphan stories"
Time: Karen Salyer McElmurray, "Consider the houses"
Impossibility: Toni Morrison, Beloved
Visual presentation: Nicky Engright, What on earth (have you done)?

LCCN:

2019047655

Control Number:

3005100

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