Similes, metaphors, alliteration, irony and many more techniques are esxplored in this book as a means of making prose and poetry more enjoyable for the reader as well as the author.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Both overlooked in the middle of a big, noisy family, Jenny and her grandpa will always have each other to confide in . . . right?

Teach your young writers the Figurative Language tools that will help them increase their vocabulary and enable the readers of their works to better visualize their story, poem or narrative verse.

A collection of essays, each tackling a Renaissance figure of speech in literature.

A Festschrift for John Laver William J. Hardcastle, Janet Mackenzie Beck. Speech Technology 1986 ( 3rd author with M. Terry , S. M. Hiller , & G. Duncan ) . AUDLAB : a speech signal processing system . IEE Conference on Speech Input and ...

In this regard, the volume does not adhere to a single definition of postmodernism as much as it documents the use of the term across a variety of academic and cultural pursuits.

“Enjoyable and informative . . . Using this humorously presented book, children will truly improve their styles of writing” (School Library Journal).

Written by famous theologian E.W. Bullinger, this dictionary of phrases classifies them into three distinct divisions: figures involving omission, addition, and change.

Her analysis of his plays and poems illustrates that the Bard knew more about rhetoric than perhaps anyone else. Originally published in 1947, this book is a classic.