The Elements of Eloquence, Mark Forsyth classics & poetry Harvard Professor of symbology

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The Elements of Eloquence, Mark Forsyth classics & poetry Harvard Professor of symbologyUsing examples from a vast range of writings, Mark Forsyth presents an amusing and wonderfully erudite guide to the formulas, flowers and figures of rhetoric. For each of 39 figures, he explains some that are well known hyperbole, paradox, rhetorical questions and other, less familiar strategies that work their magic behind the scenes, such as diacope in the immortal phrase Bond. James Bond.