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Chargement... Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphorpar Ward Farnsworth
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Make your writing and speech shine like the sun! Here's the most entertaining and instructive book about both enlivening and clarifying communication with the art of comparison. "Ward Farnsworth is a witty commentator...It's a book to dip in and savor."--The Boston Globe. The author of Farnsworth's Classical English Style and Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric now provides a wide-ranging, practical, tour of metaphors, arranged by theme. Chapters include Sources & Uses of Comparisons, The Use of Nature to Describe Abstractions, Extreme People & States, Circumstances, Personification, and The Construction of Similes. Using hundreds of examples, Farnsworth demonstrates all the different stylistic ways that points can be unforgettably made. There are quotations from novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, and orators--along with commentary on how and why they work to bring power to words both in person and and on paper. Farnsworth shows how the best writers have put figurative comparisons to distinctive use--for the sake of caricature, to make an abstract idea visible, to make a complicated idea simple. Writers and speakers, this book will make you a star. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I have been going through this book for some time now, reading it once through then periodically revisiting chapters when the mood struck. This book serves as both a wonderful learning tool for writers as well as a splendid reference for them. Unless the only thing you want to do is use the words of someone else then this is the book for you. Through discussion and many examples you will confidently understand metaphors that others use as well as create your own to better express your own thoughts.
Highly recommended to readers and writers alike. If you're a bit of a nerd like me you'll probably visit this book many times for both help and entertainment.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss. ( )