Make your writing and speech shine like the sun Here\'s the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication by comparing one thing to another.
Chapters include Sources & Uses of Comparisons, The Use of Nature.
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.
Ward Farnsworth is a witty commentator...
It\'s a book to dip in and savor.--The Boston Globe.
Make your writing and speech shine like the sun Here\'s the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication with the art of comparison.
Writers and speakers, this book will make you a star.
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.
There are quotations from novelists, playwrights, philosophers, and orators--along with commentary on how and why they work to bring power to words both in person and and on paper.
Using hundreds of examples, Farnsworth demonstrates all the different stylistic ways that points can be unforgettably made.
Chapters include Sources & Uses of Comparisons, The Use of Nature to Describe Abstractions, Extreme People & States, Circumstances, Personification, and The Construction of Similes.
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.
Ward Farnsworth is a witty commentator...
It\'s a book to dip in and savor.--The Boston Globe.
Make your writing and speech shine like the sun Here\'s the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication with the art of comparison.
Writers and speakers, this book will make you a star.
There are quotations from novelists, playwrights, philosophers, and orators--along with commentary on how and why they work to bring power to words both in person and and on paper.
Using hundreds of examples, Farnsworth demonstrates all the different stylistic ways that points can be unforgettably made.
He 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.
Ward Farnsworth provides a wide-ranging, practical, tour of metaphors, arranged by theme.
Make your writing and speech shine like the sun Here\'s the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication by comparing one thing to another
