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.
“Ward Farnsworth is a witty commentator…a book to dip in and savor.”—The Boston Globe
Say it with metaphor! Here is the most useful and entertaining book ever written about comparisons. It collects the best metaphors ever devised and explains how and why they work.
The book divides the sources of metaphor into families, such as nature, architecture, animals, and myth. It shows how the most talented writers and speakers have put each kind of material to use—for the sake of caricature, or to make an abstract idea visible, or to make a complicated idea simple. The book provides, along the way, a fascinating tour of insights from novelists, playwrights, philosophers, and other great thinkers. There’s interest and amusement to be found on every page.
This book is part of the Farnsworth’s Classical English series, which also includes entries on rhetoric, style, and argument. Like those other books, this one draws lessons about language from speech and writing that has stood the test of time. It lets you learn from the masters and enjoy them.
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