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Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

by Arthur Quinn

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A practical tour of rhetorical figures

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A practical tour of rhetorical figures

Arthur Quinn presents 60 figures of speech as possibilities for shaping language, not as terms to memorize in isolation. The chapters pair definitions with quotations from Shakespeare, the Bible, and other sources; those examples are framed as models for imitation and experimentation. The book’s organizing idea is that rhetorical figures can help explain how language works and suggest ways to use it differently. At 103 pages, it offers a compact reference centered on rhetoric and illustrative passages.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Writers interested in experimenting with language and rhetorical forms
  • Readers seeking a concise introduction to figures of speech
  • Those interested in examples drawn from Shakespeare, the Bible, and other sources

Themes

Rhetoric and figures of speechLanguage and expressive possibilityLearning through examples and imitation

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Book overview

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 other sources are not presented to exemplify the definitions. Rather, the definitions are presented to lead to the quotations. And the quotations are there to show us how to do with language what we have not done before. They are there for imitation.
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