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Author Forsyth, Mark, author.

Title The elements of eloquence : secrets of the perfect turn of phrase / Mark Forsyth.

Edition Berkley trade paperback edition.
Publication Info. New York : Berkley Books, 2014.
2 holds on first copy returned of 1 copy
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1611775~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  808.042 FOR    DUE 04-27-24
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Description xiv, 239 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliograpical references.
Contents Preface: On cooking blindfolded -- Alliteration - Polyptoton -- Antithesis -- Merism -- The blazon (a merism too far) -- Synaesthesia -- Aposiopesis -- Hyperbaton -- Anadiplosis -- Periodic sentences -- Hypotaxis and parataxis (and polysndeton and asyndeton) -- Diacope -- Rhetorical questions -- Hendiadys -- Epistrophe -- Tricolon -- Epizeuxis -- Syllepsis -- Isocolon - Enallage -- A divagation concerning versification -- Zeugma -- Paradox -- Chiasmus -- Assonance -- The fourteenth rule -- Catachresis -- Liotes -- Metonymy and synecdoche -- Transferred epithets -- Pleonasm -- Epanalepsis -- Personification -- Hyperbole -- Adynaton -- Prolepsis -- Congeries -- Scesis Onomaton -- Anaphora -- Peroration -- Epilogue concerning terminology.
Subject English language -- Style.
Literature.
ISBN 9780425276181 pbk.
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