Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor

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Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor

Using hundreds of examples, Ward Farnsworth provides a wide-ranging, practical, tour of metaphors, arranged by theme. 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. Chapters include Sources & Uses of Comparisons, The Use of Nature to Describe Abstractions, Extreme People & States, Circumstances, Personification, and The Construction of Similes.

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.

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