Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor (Farnsworth's Classical English series, 2)

Farnsworth, Ward

ISBN 10: 1567925480 / ISBN 13: 9781567925487

Published by David R. Godine, Publisher, 2016

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In a hardcover with a brown cloth spine with gilt titles and blue boards with gilt and blue illustration to front. With an unclipped colour illustrated dust jacket with yellow and white titles to spine and front. 256 pp. The book is in as new condition. the cover is free of shelf-wear, the binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is also as new. Gift Aid no. 7613. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor (Farnsworth's Classical English series, 2)
• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567925480
• ISBN 13: 9781567925487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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 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.

About the Author

Ward Farnsworth is Professor and W. Page Keeton Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. He is author of The Socratic Method, The Practicing Stoic, and the Farnsworth Classical English series which includes Argument, Rhetoric, Metaphor, and Style—all published by Godine.