Author: Henry Peacham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820100524
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Garden of Eloquence (1593). (Microform).
Author: Henry Peacham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820100524
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820100524
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Garden of Eloquence (1593)
Author: Henry Peacham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics
Author: Heinrich F Plett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004617183
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004617183
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.
The Garden of Eloquence
Author: Willard R. Espy
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
M. Jourdain, a character in a Moliere play, was amazed when told he had been speaking prose all his life. Willard Espy, who has been compared to Lewis Carroll for his light-hearted and fanciful treatment of words, points out that every day we use rhetoric just as unknowingly. In this latest book, Mr. Espy has created a preposterous wonderland, a garden such as never was; and in the words of Henry Peacham (who published the first Garden of Eloquence in 1577), he has "set therein such figurative Flowers, both of Grammar and Rhetoric, as do yield the sweet savor of Eloquence." Besides its flowers, Espy's Garden is inhabited by creatures large and small, lovable and quarrelsome, beautiful and ugly, each incarnating some figure of speech (or trope)-that magical device that extends the range of language to infinity. We are all familiar with such common tropes as metaphor, hyperbole, and alliteration, but did you know that when the minister says "let us gather together" he is employing pleonasmus? Or that "it was no small task" is an example of litotes? Was Eliza Doolittle aware, when she said she wanted to sit "absobloominlutely still," that she was teaching Henry Higgins about tmesis? Metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, pleonasmus, litotes, tmesis-these are but a sprinkling of the unforgettable Garden folk. Espy explains more than 200 rhetorical devices, dozens of them in verses sung by the tropes themselves. Each verse is followed by a definition, a comment, and examples of the usage in history, literature, and everyday speech. Thirty of the figures come visually alive in Teresa Allen's charming and witty illustrations, and word games abound throughout the book.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
M. Jourdain, a character in a Moliere play, was amazed when told he had been speaking prose all his life. Willard Espy, who has been compared to Lewis Carroll for his light-hearted and fanciful treatment of words, points out that every day we use rhetoric just as unknowingly. In this latest book, Mr. Espy has created a preposterous wonderland, a garden such as never was; and in the words of Henry Peacham (who published the first Garden of Eloquence in 1577), he has "set therein such figurative Flowers, both of Grammar and Rhetoric, as do yield the sweet savor of Eloquence." Besides its flowers, Espy's Garden is inhabited by creatures large and small, lovable and quarrelsome, beautiful and ugly, each incarnating some figure of speech (or trope)-that magical device that extends the range of language to infinity. We are all familiar with such common tropes as metaphor, hyperbole, and alliteration, but did you know that when the minister says "let us gather together" he is employing pleonasmus? Or that "it was no small task" is an example of litotes? Was Eliza Doolittle aware, when she said she wanted to sit "absobloominlutely still," that she was teaching Henry Higgins about tmesis? Metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, pleonasmus, litotes, tmesis-these are but a sprinkling of the unforgettable Garden folk. Espy explains more than 200 rhetorical devices, dozens of them in verses sung by the tropes themselves. Each verse is followed by a definition, a comment, and examples of the usage in history, literature, and everyday speech. Thirty of the figures come visually alive in Teresa Allen's charming and witty illustrations, and word games abound throughout the book.
The Garden of Eloquence
Author: Henry Peacham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Tradition and convention
Author: Dorothy Schuchman McCoy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311163244X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311163244X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
National Register of Microform Masters
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
National Register of Microform Masters
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1946
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1946
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