USED Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase (Quinn)

Author: Arthur Quinn

ISBN: 9781880393024

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Writing is not like chemical engineering. 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. 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.