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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.
This volume explores the conceptual terrain defined by the Greek word eikos: the probable, likely, or reasonable. A term of art in Greek rhetoric, a defining feature of literary fiction, a seminal mode of historical, scientific, and philosophical inquiry, eikos was a way of thin…
