Figures of Speech
60 Ways To Turn A Phrase| By: | Arthur Quinn; Barney R. Quinn |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781880393024 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136784989 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1982 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 plastic