ABSTRACT

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

chapter |3 pages

Preface

chapter |13 pages

To And or Not to And

chapter |7 pages

Effective Misspelling

chapter |11 pages

Missing Links and Headless Horsemen

chapter |9 pages

Man Bites Dog

chapter |11 pages

Reds in the Red

chapter |11 pages

More Than Enough

chapter |10 pages

There There

chapter |13 pages

Repetition Again

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion

chapter |1 pages

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