e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Heinrichs, Jay.
Subjects
English language -- Terms and phrases -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language -- Idioms -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Quotations, English.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Heinrichs, Jay.
by title:
Word hero : a fiendi...
by call number:
808.042 H469w
Search the Web
Heinrichs, Jay.
English language -- Terms and phrases -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language -- Idioms -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Quotations, English.
MARC Display
Word hero : a fiendishly clever guide to crafting the lines that get laughs, go viral, and live forever / Jay Heinrichs.
by
Heinrichs, Jay.
Three Rivers Press, c2011.
Call #:
808.042 H469w
Subjects
English
language
--
Terms and phrases
--
Handbooks
,
manuals
,
etc
.
English
language
--
Idioms
--
Handbooks
,
manuals
,
etc
.
Quotations,
English
.
ISBN:
9780307716361
0307716368
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 334 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Word apprentice. Practice witcraft ; Focus your thoughts ; Capture the secrets
--
pt. 2. Word novice. Layer the sound effects ; Play with words ; Invent new words ; Repeat yourself
--
pt. 3. Word artist. Draw a picture ; Transform things ; Change reality
--
pt. 4. Word wizard. Practice magic ; Pump ironic ; Pull words taut
--
pt. 5. Word hero. Tell a story ; Speak to a group ; Win an argument ; Be the hero.
Summary:
Yes, it's true: you can learn how to be a verbal wizard! Ever hear someone utter an unforgettable phrase and feel yourself reacting with! =well, awe? Ever read a great quote and think I could never come up with anything that clever ? Daunting as it may seem, there's nothing mystical about witcraft. Crafting memorable lines doesn't require DNA-encoded brilliance. What it does require is some knowledge of the tricks and techniques that make words stick. In Word Hero, Jay Heinrichs rescues the how-to of verbal artistry from cobwebbed textbooks and makes it entirely fresh
--
even a little mischievous. Fear not: on offer here are not dry, abstract ideas couched in academic jargon. Rather, Heinrichs takes you on an amusing
--
and amazingly helpful
--
tour of the mechanisms that make powerful
language
work. You'll learn how to slyly plant your words in people's heads and draw indelible verbal pictures by employing such tools as "crashing symbols," "rapid repeaters," "Russian Dolls" and even the powers of Mr. Potato Head. With those tools and others tucked in your utility belt, you might not immediately achieve "wordsmith immortality" but you will become a better speaker, writer, and raconteur! =and long after people have forgotten everything else, they'll remember your priceless lines.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Young Adult Nonfiction
808.042 H469w
Ya Books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.