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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Forsyth |
ISBN: | 042527618X 9780425276181 |
OCLC Number: | 893941565 |
Description: | xiv, 239 pages |
Contents: | Preface: On cooking blindfolded -- Alliteration -- Polyptoton -- Antithesis -- Merism -- The blazon (a merism too far) -- Synaesthesia -- Aposiopesis -- Hyperbaton -- Anadiplosis -- Periodic sentences -- Hypotaxis and parataxis (and polysndeton and asyndeton) -- Diacope -- Rhetorical questions -- Hendiadys -- Epistrophe -- Tricolon -- Epizeuxis -- Syllepsis -- Isocolon -- Enallage -- A divagation concerning versification -- Zeugma -- Paradox -- Chiasmus -- Assonance -- The fourteenth rule -- Catachresis -- Liotes -- Metonymy and synecdoche -- Transferred epithets -- Pleonasm -- Epanalepsis -- Personification -- Hyperbole -- Adynaton -- Prolepsis -- Congeries -- Scesis Onomaton -- Anaphora -- Peroration -- Epilogue concerning terminology. |
Responsibility: | Mark Forsyth. |
Abstract:
Examines popular and famous witty phrases to distill their stylistic significance, and provides tips and guidelines for writing one's own witty one-liners.
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