Figures of Speech ~ Sixty Ways to Turn a Phrase
by Quinn, Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0879051213
- ISBN 13
- 9780879051211
- Seller
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About This Item
Salt Lake City, Utah, Usa: Gibbs M. Smith, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Vintage 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. Therefore, In The Chapters Presented In This Volume, The Quotations From Shakespeare, The Bible, And Other Sources Are Not Presented To Exemplify The Definitions. Rather, The Definitions Are Presented To Lead To The Quotations. And The Quotations Are There To Show Us How To Do With Language What We Have Not Done Before. They Are There For Imitation.
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- Bookseller
- Alright Bookstore (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007429
- Title
- Figures of Speech ~ Sixty Ways to Turn a Phrase
- Author
- Quinn, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0879051213
- ISBN 13
- 9780879051211
- Publisher
- Gibbs M. Smith
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City, Utah, Usa
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 103
- Keywords
- Writing, Nonfiction, Language, Reference, Poetry, Literature, Literary Criticism, Amazon, Communication, General, Essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry - Inspirational;
- X weight
- 400 g
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