The elements of eloquence : how to turn the perfect English phrase
Forsyth, Mark2014
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Main title:
Author:
Forsyth, Mark, author
Imprint:
[s.l.] : Icon books ltd, 2014.London Icon Books, 2014.
Collation:
viii, 205 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2013.Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Alliteration -- ch. 2 Polyptoton -- ch. 3 Antithesis -- ch. 4 Merism -- ch. 5 The Blazon (A Merism Too Far) -- ch. 6 Synaesthesia -- ch. 7 Aposiopesis -- ch. 8 Hyperbaton -- ch. 9 Anadiplosis -- ch. 10 Periodic Sentences -- ch. 11 Hypotaxis and Parataxis (and Polysyndeton and Asyndeton) -- ch. 12 Diacope -- ch. 13 Rhetorical Questions -- ch. 14 Hendiadys -- ch. 15 Epistrophe -- ch. 16 Tricolon -- ch. 17 Epizeuxis -- ch. 18 Syllepsis -- ch. 19 Isocolon -- ch. 20 Enallage -- ch. 21 A Divagation Concerning Versification -- ch. 22 Zeugma -- ch. 23 Paradox -- ch. 24 Chiasmus -- ch. 25 Assonance -- ch. 26 The Fourteenth Rule -- ch. 27 Catachresis -- ch. 28 Litotes -- ch. 29 Metonymy and Synecdoche -- ch. 30 Transferred Epithets -- ch. 31 Pleonasm -- ch. 32 Epanalepsis -- ch. 33 Personification -- ch. 34 Hyperbole -- ch. 35 Adynaton -- ch. 36 Prolepsis -- ch. 37 Congeries -- ch. 38 Scesis Onomaton -- ch. 39 Anaphora.
ISBN:
9781848317338 (pbk)1848317336 (pbk)
Dewey class:
808.042
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
288369