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Figures of Speech

Name: Figures of Speech
ISBN: 1880393026

: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

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 l

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“Writing is not like chemical engineering. We shouldn’t learn the figures of speech the way we learn the periodic table of elements. We shouldn’t because we are learning not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within our language, within ourselves.”

— Arthur Quinn, amazon.com

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