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.
General
| Imprint: |
David R. Godine Publisher
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Farnsworth's Classical English |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Authors: |
Ward Farnsworth
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-56792-548-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-56792-548-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781567925487 |
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