Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase
ISBN: 9780429238284
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Communication Studies; Humanities; Rhetoric; Media & Film Studies; Media & Communications;

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


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