Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

by Arthur Quinn

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 plastic

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136784989
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1995
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	880 KB

About the Author

Quinn, Arthur

Table of Contents

Preface; To And or Not to And; Effective Misspelling; Missing Links and Headless Horsemen; Man Bites Dog; Reds in the Red; More Than Enough; There There; Repetition Again; Conclusion