Questions tagged [building-great-sentences]
Questions about the book 'Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read' by Brooks Landon. Use this tag with the tag [brooks-landon].
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How can some similes 'make comparisons' without thinking 'of one situation or thing as being something else'?
Prof. Brooks Landon, U. Iowa, Ph.D. U. Texas at Austin. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (Great Courses) (2013). p. 121.
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Why don’t writers layer and number lengthy sentences?
Prof. Brooks Landon, U. Iowa, Ph.D. U. Texas at Austin. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (Great Courses) (2013). pp 55-56.
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Why didn't Faulkner split a 118-word sentence into three, In "Barn Burning" when he writes about the boy protagonist?
Prof. Brooks Landon, U. Iowa, Ph.D. U. Texas at Austin. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (Great Courses) (2013). pp 16-17.
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