Figures of Speech : 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

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. Read more... Content: Front Cover; Figures of Speech; Copyright Page; 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; Abbreviations; Glossary/Index Abstract: 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