Live Language Lessons (1914)

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292

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431 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HOW TO TELL A STORY 7 CHOOSE INVITING TITLES In what way does a well-chosen title help the reader? How does it help the writer? Think of the titles you remember best? Give three of them. Write five apt titles for stories of your own. Review exercise 5, Second Book, Part Two. 8 BEGIN THE STORY INTERESTINGLY The opening sentence of a story should catch and hold the attention of the reader. Many young story writers forget this and begin tamely. Others waste tune by using needless words, as some people do in writing letters. You may have read letters which began in some such way as this: "I take my pen in hand and sit down to write you a letter." Read the following beginnings of stories by successful writers. You will enjoy accepting the invitation these beginnings give to continue the stories: While the larger boys in the village school of Greenbank were having a game of "three-hole cat" before school time, there appeared on the playground a strange boy, carrying two books, a slate, and an atlas under his arm.? " The Hoosier Schoolboy" by Edward Eggleston. The twin babies were black. They were black as coal. Indeed they were blacker than coal, for they glistened in their oily blackness.? " Twin Babies," by Joaquin Miller. There lived once in a waste apartment of the Alhambra a merry little fellow, named Lope Sanchez, who worked in the gardens and was as brisk and blithe as a grasshopper, singing all day long.? "Legend of the Two Discreet Statues," by Washington Irving. Write five inviting beginnings for stories which relate incidents of your experience. 9 MAKE THE STORY MOVE The opening sentence of the story should be such as to catch and hold the attention of the reader. But a good beginning is not enough. The story must move on interestingly i...

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