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    <title>describer's dictionary</title>
    <subTitle>a treasury of terms and literary quotations for readers and writers</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Grambs, David.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>W.W. Norton</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1993</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1993</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>412 p. ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Have you ever found yourself graspimg in vain for that ideal descriptive word lost somewhere within the misty recesses of your vocabulary? or left frustrated that an oddly shaped structure or pretty setting you wished to portray in writing didn't quite translate clearly to paper? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then THE DESCRIBER'S DICTIONARY is exactly the book you need. Open it, and you have no only just the right words but bringing them to life stella literary examples of descriptive writing as well.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">David Grambs.</note>
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    <topic>English language</topic>
    <topic>Synonyms and antonyms</topic>
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    <topic>Description (Rhetoric)</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Inglés</topic>
    <topic>Sinónimos y antónimos</topic>
    <topic>Diccionarios</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Descripción literaria</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>20150700</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">R  PE 1591 G745d 1993</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">423/.1</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0393033996 :</identifier>
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