Figuratively speaking

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In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robert J. Fogelin examines figures of speech that concern meaning - irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others - to show how they work and to explain their attraction.

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Title Statements

Full title :Figuratively speaking / by Robert Fogelin.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.
Edition:Rev. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 131 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199838080, 0199838089, 9780199895045, 019989504X
oclc:ocn741613234
LC Classification:PN227
Dewey Decimal:808

Figurative predications -- Figurative comparisons: the traditional view -- The standard criticisms of comparativism -- A dilemma for theories of metaphor -- A theory of figurative comparisons -- Elaborations.

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Figures of speech LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composit… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric metaphor Métaphore REFERENCE -- Writing Skills Tropus