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William Strunk Jr. (July 1, 1869 – September 26, 1946) was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and extended the book, The Elements of Style became an influential guide to writing in the English language, informally known as “Strunk & White”.
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. [1] [2] [3] The book explains classical rhetoric, dedicating each chapter to a rhetorical figure with examples of its use, particularly in the works of William Shakespeare. Forsyth argues the power of Shakespeare's language ...
The Children's Literature Review criticized elements of the book's plot, such as the use of time travel, but praised its setting and descriptive writing. [ 2 ] Kirkus Reviews was critical of the book's climax, saying "to the end the discrepancy between her grand scheme and the particulars of the story is unbridged, giving a morally and ...
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs. The original WMA codec, known simply as WMA, was conceived as a competitor to the popular MP3 and ...
The Power of Five (known as The Gatekeepers in the US) is a series of five fantasy and suspense novels, written by English author Anthony Horowitz.Published between 2005 and 2012, it is an updated re-imagining of Horowitz's Pentagram series, which the author had left unfinished in the 1980s after he only wrote four of the five planned books in the series.
Writing a story means weaving all of the elements of fiction together. When it is done right, weaving dialogue, narrative, and action can create a beautiful tapestry. [ 6 ] A scene top-heavy with action can feel unreal because it is likely that characters doing something—anything at all—would be talking during the activity.
The first essay relates between two ways of writing, one precise and disciplined, and one more convulsive. The margins between them become a metaphor for the tension in her writing between “careful” precision and a more “unruly” instinct, where the words “erupt” and overflow, as she says, drawing on volcanic imagery. [2]
According to Book Marks, the book received a "positive" consensus, based on seven critics: four "rave", two "positive", and one "mixed". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The New York Times ' review stated " The Fifth Season invites us to imagine a dismantling of the earth in both the literal and the metaphorical sense, and suggests the possibility of a richer and ...