| A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays Bob Brannan,
Johnson County Community College
Choosing the Most Effective Word
Glossaryabstract details | vague, general notions such as equality, friendship or happiness
| | | | concision | writing what we mean with few wasted words
| | | | concrete details | specific details related to the physical world
| | | | connotation | a subjective, figurative meaning of a word
| | | | denotation | the objective, literal meaning of a word
| | | | mixed metaphors | clashing images created through comparison
| | | | personification | giving human attributes to animals and things
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