Thesaurus

Creative Writing PromptsThesaurus Abuse

Visit a thesaurus website or grab a thesaurus from your book shelf if you have one. Search or flip through until you find five preposterously verbose, bombastic, grandiloquent alternatives for everyday words. Using all five terms, write a scene about a character who writes “purple prose” or speaks in overly flowery language.

Jess Zafarris

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