Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
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"I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (praeteritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it - and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and read it - buy it and read it (epimone)."-Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern…
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“Classical English rhetoric”? When I first discovered this book years ago, I had no idea what those words meant. But when I opened the book to browse, I found a treasure of techniques for writing powerful sentences. Many of these techniques are based on a fundamental idea of repetition; once I started practicing them, I couldn’t stop because they were so much fun! I learned to ignore their off-putting Latin names and concentrate on using them.
So many people have been told by classroom teachers that they should never repeat a word or phrase. However, repetition is a highly effective…
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