Use Definite, Specific, Concrete Language.

nouns refer to the world in a way quite different from concrete nouns. They do not point to a set of particulars-all curtained cabins-or to any one cabin. They are relational. For instance, in speaking of Blifil's "avarice," Fielding calls up at least the relation of a series of acts to one another (a single act of acquiring or hoarding is not enough); of Blifil's feelings to these actions and to the wealth that is their goal; of those acts and feelings to a scale of values that is socially established (avarice is a sin, and so related to salvation and damnation); and of Blifil to other people who make such judgments, as well as to people whose wealth he might covet and who would become poorer were he to become richer. The term also evokes a This content downloaded from 207.46.13.178 on Wed, 15 Jun 2016 06:37:25 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms