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" Figures of Speech 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase "
Arthur Quinn
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BL
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761919
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b581896
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Arthur Quinn
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Figures of Speech 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase\ Arthur Quinn
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| Publication Statement
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Hoboken Taylor and Francis, 2012
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(100 Seiten)
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| ISBN
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0203825209
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: 1880393026
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: 9780203825204
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: 9781880393024
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| Abstract
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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. ...
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PN227.A784 2012
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Arthur Quinn
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