Proper+Nouns


 * Proper Nouns**

Writers know the power of names. Name dropping in texts does so much work for writers: brand names, people names, place names. Using proper nouns gives writing SPECIFICITY that makes readers __trust the authority__ of the narrator.

Before she died, I know my mother must have loved to comb my shiny hair and rub that Johnson’s baby lotion up and down my arms and wrap me up and hold and hold meal night long. Cynthia Rylant, __Missing May__