1st Edition
Figures of Speech 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase
112 Pages
by
Routledge
112 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface; To And or Not to And; Effective Misspelling; Missing Links and Headless Horsemen; Man Bites Dog; Reds in the Red; More Than Enough; There There; Repetition Again; Conclusion
Biography
Quinn, Arthur
