{"product_id":"farnsworths-classical-english-metaphor-hardcover","title":"Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWard Farnsworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMake your writing and speech shine like the sun  Here's the most entertaining and instructive book about both enlivening and clarifying communication with the art of comparison. \"Ward Farnsworth is a witty commentator...It's a book to dip in and savor.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarnsworth's Classical English Style\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e now provides a wide-ranging, practical, tour of metaphors, arranged by theme. Chapters include Sources \u0026amp; Uses of Comparisons, The Use of Nature to Describe Abstractions, Extreme People \u0026amp; States, Circumstances, Personification, and The Construction of Similes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing hundreds of examples, Farnsworth demonstrates all the different stylistic ways that points can be unforgettably made. There are quotations from novelists, poets, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. Writers and speakers, this book will make you a star.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67900456698008,"sku":"9781567925487","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/VUIxK2hiRnoxbTM1SStuM29lL3dzZz09.webp?v=1793847072","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/farnsworths-classical-english-metaphor-hardcover","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}