Speech Verbs: How to effectively avoid redundancy

Speech Verbs​

From what I've seen when people write or type (especially in fanfiction), I notice that they overuse words such as said, asked and others similar to this. To avoid continuous use of the same words, I am going to compile a list of all the Speech Verbs I come across.


List of Speech Verbs:

Said
Explained
Exclaimed
Asked
Questioned
Thought
Proclaimed
Countered
Shouted
Whispered
Thanked
Replied
Responded
Concluded
Summarized
Finished
Began
Agreed
Disagreed
Pushed
Continued


I will update this list daily, so long as I can think of or am given some more of these types of speech verbs. Hopefully you'll read this before going and writing a story or something equally troublesome; the world will be purged of speech redundancy so long as this list is used.

 

It doesn't really matter to me.

 

You forgot one


Responded

^^^^ most important one.

 

Great list. People get redundant with the word "like"
alternatives for that could be

and
also
etc