Style & Figures of Speech
By Richard Nordquist, About.com Guide to Grammar & Composition
Style and rhetoric are ancient arts--of persuasion, expression, and effective communication--that are just as valuable to writers today as they were to students in ancient Greece and Rome.
Figures of Speech
Aristotle may be 2,500 years old--but his writings on rhetoric are still relevant today.
- Top 20 Figures of Speech
- Figures of Speech in Advertising Slogans
- Definitions of Rhetoric
- Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis
- Sample Rhetorical Analysis
- What Is a Metaphor?
- The Metaphors of Dr. Gregory House
- Who or What Is Personification?
- What Is Irony?
- What Is an Analogy?
- Homer Simpson's Figures of Speech
- Discussion Questions for Rhetorical Analysis
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