czwartek, 22 września 2011

Thesaurus - Word Games

By Ian Tate


Thriving on the repeated use of words as well as phrases are some beautiful literary styles. The language is described to be beautiful and poetic. But this is not an article that would encourage you to use repeated words.

It may be in your best interest to read through your text and determine if a phrase or word is overused unless you are writing in a style that demands the use of repetition.

Here is an example,

Bad

Finding the purpose of the repeated use of a word and then the purpose not to use that word so much is the goal of this exercise.

What about good?

Trying to discover the objective of the repeated use of a word is the purpose of this exercise. After that, you will resolve to not continually using that particular word.

Even though the exact same thing was said in both sentences, one of them has different but related words that allowed a more readable flow.

There are plenty of writers who would work on a first draft and laying down the ideas in a coherent fashion is how they can accomplish this. After they have toiled through the first draft, only then will they begin to notice a repetition of words or phrases.

Utilizing a tool that provides a benefit in saying something that's more of unique fashion is what many writers do and this device is called a thesaurus.

A thesaurus can be used to take a sentence like the following and transform it into something new.

Original

Tammy found it difficult to take part in the school play because she was so shy and awkward.

What about enhanced?

It was challenging for Tammy to participate in the theatrical production at school because she was so reserved and self-conscious.

Many word processors provide a tool function that allows you to highlight a word and it will provide a list of word choices that you can use to replace an overused or ill-fitting word.

If a greater interest in writing longhand is what you have, then try to consider buying a thesaurus in order to assist you in your writing. A thesaurus can help open up new avenues of creativity and expression in your writing and this may even come as a surprise for you.

A word will sometimes have more than one meaning and helping you to provide words in context of the original meaning and giving you flexibility in the application of any given word is a thesaurus.

So break out a thesaurus and expand the possibilities the next time you stumble across a word that has seen lots of appearances in your writing.




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