Figures of Speech : Sixty Ways to Turn a Phrase

Name: Figures of Speech : Sixty Ways to Turn a Phrase
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ISBN: 9780879051211

ISBN-10: 0879051213

ISBN-13: 9780879051211

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Authors: Arthur Quinn

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Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility that we can make language do for us almost anything we want. Or at least a Shakespeare can. The figures of speech help to see how he does it, and how we might. Therefore, in the chapters presented in this volume, the quotations from Shakespeare, the Bible, and…

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Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.594
Language: English