Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes

by David Reid

In Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes, veteran literary scholar David Reid examines figures of speech, arguing that figures of speech in prose and poetry, literature and talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance, clat). Reid analyzes figures from Homer to literary giants of the twentieth century, mostly drawn from poetry, but also from prose and colloquial turns of phrase. Making Sense of Metaphors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680532162
• ISBN13: 9781680532166
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"