Elements of Eloquence
Posted: March 20th, 2015, 8:13 pm
I appreciate Will Houston's recent review of Mark Forsyth's The Elements of Eloquence.
I raved about this book to my friends over Xmas.
Those unfamiliar Ancient Greek terms like polyptoton, merism, aposiopesis, hyperbaton , anadiplosis, hendiadys seem daunting.
But you know many of them already without realising it!
This book explains the rhetorical tricks that writers use - from Shakespeare to John Lennon.
Thankfully, you don't have to be a literary theorist to understand the content.
if you can read Genii magazine, then you should be able to digest Mark's book.
The author also has an informative blog, The Inky Fool:
http://blog.inkyfool.com
I raved about this book to my friends over Xmas.
Those unfamiliar Ancient Greek terms like polyptoton, merism, aposiopesis, hyperbaton , anadiplosis, hendiadys seem daunting.
But you know many of them already without realising it!
This book explains the rhetorical tricks that writers use - from Shakespeare to John Lennon.
Thankfully, you don't have to be a literary theorist to understand the content.
if you can read Genii magazine, then you should be able to digest Mark's book.
The author also has an informative blog, The Inky Fool:
http://blog.inkyfool.com