Engage readers and listeners by focusing on five potent, practical, time-tested elements of style.
To succeed with style, choose words with rich connotations and specifics evoking palpable sensations.
A caution: Before you try to score style points, work your message into fit form, trim and taut. After you’ve conditioned your body logic, you can build on it to intensify your lines of reasoning. If you drape style elements onto flabby logic, you’re likely to highlight your message’s ungainliness., beware of ornamenting your message with mere bling, which risks adding sparkle without substance.
Which points to the second winning play: Choose words and phrases to activate sensory, motor, and visual neurons. The goal is to have what you say mentallyAnd here’s Western writer Zane Grey: “I observed then that the lizard had his jewel eyes upon the bee; he slipped to the edge of the stone, flicked out a long, red tongue, and tore the insect from its honeyed perch.”
Playing with recurring sounds is another way to add style—recurring consonants, syllables, and word endings. The ensuing drumbeat—in phrases, sentences, or within paragraphs—establishes a pleasing rhythm and makes the sentence easier to read. See my
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