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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON.
'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric ... Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He also writes beautifully.' David Marsh, Guardian.
Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such lines as 'To be or not to be' and 'Bond. James Bond.'
In his inimitably entertaining and witty style, he takes apart famous quotations and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde or John Lennon.
Crammed with tricks to make the most humdrum sentiments seem poetic or wise, The Elements of Eloquence reveals how writers through the ages have turned humble words into literary gold - and how you can do the same.
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Mark Forsyth is a blogger and author who was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. In 2009, he started the Inky Fool blog in order to share his heaps of useless information with a verbose world. His books have made him one of the UK's best-known commentators on words. Follow Mark on Twitter @inkyfool.
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Third Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 205 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Half-title page; Praise for Mark Forsyth's previous books; Praise for The Elements of Eloquence; Full-title page; Copyright information; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the author; Epigraph; Preface: On Cooking Blindfolded; Chapter 1: Alliteration; Chapter 2: Polyptoton; Chapter 3: Antithesis; Chapter 4: Merism; Chapter 5: The Blazon (A Merism Too Far); Chapter 6: Synaesthesia; Chapter 7: Aposiopesis; Chapter 8: Hyperbaton; Chapter 9: Anadiplosis; Chapter 10: Periodic Sentences; Chapter 11: Hypotaxis and Parataxis (and Polysyndeton and Asyndeton); Chapter 12: Diacope Chapter 13: Rhetorical QuestionsChapter 14: Hendiadys; Chapter 15: Epistrophe; Chapter 16: Tricolon; Chapter 17: Epizeuxis; Chapter 18: Syllepsis; Chapter 19: Isocolon; Chapter 20: Enallage; Chapter 21: A Divagation Concerning Versification; Chapter 22: Zeugma; Chapter 23: Paradox; Chapter 24: Chiasmus; Chapter 25: Assonance; Chapter 26: The Fourteenth Rule; Chapter 27: Catachresis; Chapter 28: Litotes; Chapter 29: Metonymy and Synecdoche; Chapter 30: Transferred Epithets; Chapter 31: Pleonasm; Chapter 32: Epanalepsis; Chapter 33: Personification; Chapter 34: Hyperbole; Chapter 35: Adynaton Chapter 36: ProlepsisChapter 37: Congeries; Chapter 38: Scesis Onomaton; Chapter 39: Anaphora; Peroration; Epilogue Concerning Terminology; Selected Further Reading; Details of Mark Forsyth's previous books. Subjects; English language Style. Literature. English. Languages & Literatures. English Language. English language Etymology. English language Obsolete words. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Rhetoric. REFERENCE Writing Skills. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES. Eloquence. Rhetoric. English language ; Terms and phrases. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 435698
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