The Elements Eloquence (Audiobook)

from Neftzger

As a writer, I'm interested in the technical information in the book - how some of the best authors in history utilized these building blocks called the figures of rhetoric in their craft. He doesn't explain every figure in existence - just some of the ones more commonly used. What's great about ...

from kaulsu

What a great book! Not something to read cover-to-cover, but something to pick up with regular periodicity and savor. Perfect for a writer's or editor's reference shelf. I've made anki-app cards (electronic flash cards?) for each of the categories, Forsyth gives myriad examples, often well known ...

from JonArnold

Forsyth makes a grandiloquent claim for school English language lessons; that they don't teach the right thing. Instead of teaching the mechanics of English; how the writer achieves their effect, it focuses on what the writer thought and felt (and he illustrates this by querying Blake's sanity). ...

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Dental hilarity I bought this without hesitation as soon as I saw it was written by the author of the Etimologicon. Started reading it whilst I was sitting in the dentist's waiting room and couldn't help laughing like a loon. Love it!

from Razinha

What a delightful book! Forsyth dove (dived?) deep into the obscurities of rhetoric to enlighten this reader on the many many technical terms for the phrases, forms, devices, maneuvers (okay...I channeled Eddie Izzard on that one), figures, terms, etc. When he opened withEnglish teaching at schoo...