Figures Of Speech

Author : Arthur Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136784989

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Figures of Speech by Arthur Quinn Pdf

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 plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility that we can make language do for us almost anything we want. Or at least a Shakespeare can. The figures of speech help to see how he does it, and how we might. Therefore, in the chapters presented in this volume, the quotations from Shakespeare, the Bible, and other sources are not presented to exemplify the definitions. Rather, the definitions are presented to lead to the quotations. And the quotations are there to show us how to do with language what we have not done before. They are there for imitation.

Author : Marvin Terban
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547346274

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It Figures! by Marvin Terban Pdf

“Enjoyable and informative . . . Using this humorously presented book, children will truly improve their styles of writing” (School Library Journal). Writing “The road was bumpy” is okay . . . but isn’t it more fun to say “It felt like we were riding on square tires”? This lively guide shows kids how to make their writing more dramatic, more memorable, or just plain funnier—whether they’re writing for school or for creative expression. It explains six techniques: Similes Metaphors Onomatopoeia Alliteration Hyperbole Personification . . . and provides guidelines for their use, plenty of examples, and entertaining illustrations.

Author : Tim Cassedy
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781609386122

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Figures of Speech by Tim Cassedy Pdf

Tim Cassedy’s fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one’s identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian) and globalization, language served as a way to categorize people within a world that appeared more diverse than ever. Linguistic differences, especially among English-speakers, seemed to validate the emerging national, racial, local, and regional identity categories that took shape in this new world order. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time—from the woman known as “Princess Caraboo” to wordsmith Noah Webster—Cassedy shows how each put language at the center of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era’s linguistic ideas. The result is a highly entertaining and equally informative look at how perceptions about who spoke what language—and how they spoke it—determined the shape of communities in the British American colonies and beyond. This engagingly written story is sure to appeal to historians of literature, culture, and communication; to linguists and book historians; and to general readers interested in how ideas about English developed in the early United States and throughout the English-speaking world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Delmonico Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1636810748

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Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech by Anonim Pdf

The essential volume on the great fashion designer, entrepreneur and Louis Vuitton artistic director, back in print This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the designer himself, accompanies his acclaimed landmark 2019-23 touring exhibition and offers in-depth analysis of his career and his inspirations. More than a catalog, Figures of Speechis a 500-page user's manual to Abloh's genre-bending work in art, fashion and design. The first section features essays and an interview that examine Abloh's oeuvre through the lenses of contemporary art history, architecture, streetwear, high fashion and race, to provide insight into a prolific and impactful career that cuts across mediums, connecting visual artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers, major brands and architects. The book also contains a massive archive of images culled from Abloh's personal files on major projects, revealing behind-the-scenes snapshots, prototypes, inspirations and more--accompanied by intimate commentary from the artist. Finally, a gorgeous full-color plate section offers a detailed view of Abloh's work across disciplines. Virgil Abloh(1980-2021) was a fashion designer and entrepreneur, and the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's men's wear collection from 2018 to 2021. He was also CEO of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2013. Born in Rockford, Illinois, to Ghanaian parents, he entered the world of fashion with an internship at Fendi in 2009 alongside rapper Kanye West. The two began an artistic collaboration that would launch Abloh's career with the founding of Off-White. Timemagazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.

Author : Sylvia Adamson,Gavin Alexander,Katrin Ettenhuber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521866408

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Renaissance Figures of Speech by Sylvia Adamson,Gavin Alexander,Katrin Ettenhuber Pdf

A collection of essays, each tackling a Renaissance figure of speech in literature.

Author : Gloria Ferrari
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226244365

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Figures of Speech by Gloria Ferrari Pdf

Over the past two hundred years, thousands of ancient Greek vases have been unearthed. Yet these artifacts remain a challenge: what did the images depicted on these vases actually mean to ancient Greek viewers? In this long-awaited book, Gloria Ferrari uses Athenian vases, literary evidence, and other works of art from the Archaic and Classical periods (520-400 B.C.) to investigate what these items can tell us about the ancient Greeks—specifically, their notions of gender. Ferrari begins by developing a theoretical perspective on visual representation, arguing that artistic images give us access to how their subjects were imagined rather than to the way they really were. For instance, Ferrari's examinations of the many representations of women working wool reveal that these images constitute powerful metaphors—metaphors, she argues, which both reflect and construct Greek conceptions of the ideal woman and her ideal behavior. From this perspective, Ferrari studies a number of icons representing blameless femininity and ideal masculinity to reevaluate the rites of passage by which girls are made ready for marriage and boys become men. Representations of the nude male body in Archaic statues known as kouroi, for example, symbolize manhood itself and shed new light on the much-discussed institution of paiderastia. And, in Ferrari's hands, imagery equating maidens with arable land and buried treasure provides a fresh view of Greek ideas of matrimony. Innovative, thought-provoking, and insightful throughout, Figures of Speech is a powerful demonstration of how the study of visual images as well as texts can reshape our understanding of ancient Greek culture.

Author : Edwin Gerow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110152878

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A Glossary of Indian Figures of Speech by Edwin Gerow Pdf

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Author : Susan Elizabeth Ryan,Robert Indiana
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300079575

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Robert Indiana by Susan Elizabeth Ryan,Robert Indiana Pdf

The author argues that Indiana's strident visual language emerges from his tendency to recast his life in story and verse, a fact that unlocks complex and secret tissues of figurative meaning within the deceptively simple canvases. By illuminating the enigmas in Indiana's word and image combinations, she helps to explain the longevity of LOVE and its influence on a later generation of artists."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : E. W. Bullinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1614278350

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Figures of Speech Used in the Bible Explained and Illustrated by E. W. Bullinger Pdf

2011 Hardcover Reprint of 1898 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Many consider Bullinger's handbook to be the best one on the subject. According to Walter Kaiser, "this book should be on every exegete's shelf alongside the Greek and Hebrew lexicons and grammars." Bullinger sets out 217 distinct figures of speech present in Scripture. He gives for each the pronunciation and etymology of its name, and then a number of passages of Scripture in which it appears, accompanied by a full explanation. In all, nearly eight thousand passages are thus cited.

Author : Sonia Mehta
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143444883

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Fantastic Figures of Speech (Fun with English) by Sonia Mehta Pdf

Do you find figures of speech somewhat flummoxing? Don't worry, alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification and all the rest are just different ways of making language entertaining to read and write. This book is jam-packed with fun activities for you to learn and practise using figures of speech.

Author : Christina Alm-Arvius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Figures of speech
ISBN : 9144027990

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Figures of Speech by Christina Alm-Arvius Pdf

This book exemplifies, analyses and describes different types of figurative meanings, or tropes, and rhythmical schemes in natural verbal language. It should be of interest to anyone who looks for linguistically oriented information about these questions. The book focuses on figurative language in standard English, but the analyses and explanations given should be valid also for other languages. Simile, personification, oxymoron, hyperbole, understatement, symbolic language and punning are dealt with, and there is a chapter on rhythmical schemes, but the main part of the book is about metaphor and metonymy, including synecdoche. A number of theoretical attempts at explaining the character of these tropes are described and discussed. A more comprehensive analytical perspective is argued for, however. Metaphorical and metonymic uses clearly connect to cognition and experience in general in a creative way, but in this study it is also pointed out that there are obvious parallels between metaphor and metonymy and the non-figurative types of relations in language systems termed hyponymy and meronymy. Accordingly, language users seem to operate with general types of semantic strategies.

Author : Stephen Adams
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Poetic Designs by Stephen Adams Pdf

Author : Lynne Magnusson,David Schalkwyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108661539

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language by Lynne Magnusson,David Schalkwyk Pdf

The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as language change and the distance of time render it more opaque and difficult. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language provides important contexts for understanding Shakespeare's experiments with language and offers accessible approaches to engaging with it directly and pleasurably. Incorporating both practical analysis and exemplary readings of Shakespearean passages, it covers elements of style, metre, speech action and dialogue; examines the shaping contexts of rhetorical education and social language; test-drives newly available digital methodologies and technologies; and considers Shakespeare's language in relation to performance, translation and popular culture. The Companion explains the present state of understanding while identifying opportunities for fresh discovery, leaving students equipped to ask productive questions and try out innovative methods.

Author : William Bennett Turner
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781609944650

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Figures of Speech by William Bennett Turner Pdf

“Turner tells fascinating stories of unlikely heroes and explains difficult legal issues clearly and concisely, educating and entertaining at the same time.” —Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner—a Berkeley law professor who has argued three cases before the Supreme Court—shows how we’ve arrived at our contemporary understanding of free speech. His strange cast of heroes and villains, some drawn from cases he has litigated, includes Communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Ku Klux Klansmen, the world’s leading pornographer, prison wardens, dogged reporters, federal judges, a computer whiz, and a countercultural comedian. This is a fascinating look at how the scope of our First Amendment freedoms has evolved and the colorful characters behind some of the most important legal decisions of modern times. “In Figures of Speech, celebrated civil rights attorney Bill Turner has crafted a rare gem: a concise, clearly written book that provides a trenchant introduction to the complexities of First Amendment law as well as riveting, behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the most controversial free-speech cases in American history. Anyone interested in politics, the law, and the future of American democracy should read this important, vigorously argued book.” —Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough “Turner attempts to enlighten those with only a vague conception of their rights . . . an important reference on the First Amendment.” —SFGate

Author : R. E. Myers
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781573105637

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Figures of Speech Grades 5-8 by R. E. Myers Pdf

Similes, metaphors, alliteration, irony and many more techniques are esxplored in this book as a means of making prose and poetry more enjoyable for the reader as well as the author. Teacher tips, evaluation methods, and student exercises are all included.