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Book SynopsisTom Heehler is a degree student at the Harvard University Extension School and creator of Fluent in Five Languages, the free online language course where students learn to speak four languages simultaneously - French, Italian, Spanish, and Romanian. You can find this novel approach to language acquisition at FreeLanguageCourses.Blogspot.com.
Trade Review"This is your guide to eloquence — replacing ordinary words with extraordinary ones that take your writing to new heights. " - Gotham Writer's Workshop
"A celebration of the spoken word." - Chicago Tribune
"How absolutely fascinating." - The Fayetteville Observer
"In this unconventional, easy-to-use thesaurus, Heehler, a degree student at the Harvard Extension School, invites the reader to speak like an academic without sounding like one." - Book News
"The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is a delightful book for anyone interested in language and the spoken word." - Midge Raymond, Award-winning author of Forgetting English
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii On Becoming Articulate 1 Rhetorical Form and Design 5 Lesson 1: T. S Eliot 6 Lesson 2: Margaret Atwood 9 Lesson 3: Ernest Hemingway 11 Lesson 4: Cormac McCarthy 14 Lesson 5: John Steinbeck 16 Lesson 6: Norman Mailer 18 Lesson 7: Edith Wharton 20 Lesson 8: E. B. White 22 Lesson 9: J. M. Coetzee 24 Lesson 10: John Steinbeck 26 Lesson 11: Barbara Kingsolver 28 Lesson 12: Joshua Ferris 30 Lesson 13: Ken Kesey 32 Lesson 14: Martin Luther King, Jr 34 Lesson 15: Henry James 36 Lesson 16: Barack Obama 39 Lesson 17: Cintra Wilson 41 The Well-Spoken Vocabulary 43 The Seven Rhetorical Sins 47 How This Book Works 51 Preamble 53 The Well-Spoken Thesaurus 55 200 Well-Spoken Alternatives to Common Words and Phrases 384 About the Author 392
