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©Carolyn Gabb

RESPONDING TO LITERATURE
The "empty/no-no" words of responding

In any writing about literature, beware of the following words!! NEVER use these
descriptive terms unless you are fully prepared to explain and defend WHY you
have used them!

 

BEWARE OF 
THE FOLLOWING WORDS!!!

cute  delightful  quaint
nice  fun  favorite
neat  little  interesting
darling  different  terrible
boring  funny  precious
lovely wonderful exciting
beautiful dull awesome