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Words into Hype

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annis
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Words into Hype

Post by annis » Tue October 14th, 2008, 5:54 am

Readers ( and writers) might enjoy this tongue-in-cheek selection of literary terms as explained by Chris Offutt, from “Excerpt from The Offutt Guide to Literary Terms."
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082 ... tter_Oct08
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Post by Margaret » Wed October 22nd, 2008, 1:15 am

This is hysterically funny. Thanks for sharing, Annis.
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Post by Misfit » Wed October 22nd, 2008, 2:00 am

ROFL. Annis where you come up with this stuff......
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Post by annis » Wed October 22nd, 2008, 5:08 am

I'm a magpie, Misfit, i just pick up stuff from all over and store it away :)
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