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Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor

The Farnsworth Classical English Series

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Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor

By: Ward Farnsworth
Narrated by: John Lescault
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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.

Ward Farnsworth provides a wide-ranging, practical tour of metaphors, arranged by theme. 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.

Using hundreds of examples, Farnsworth demonstrates all the different stylistic ways that points can be unforgettably made. 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.

Writers and speakers, this book will make you a star.

©2016 by Ward Farnsworth (P)2020 by Blackstone Publishing
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