An introduction to rhetorical terms / Christopher Kelen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelen, Christopher.

Series:

Philosophy insights.

Philosophy insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (71 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study guide gives students a handy reference to the background knowledge of rhetorical terms demanded of them by critical and theoretical texts in the humanities.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Licence""; ""Title Page""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface: An Introduction to Rhetorical Terms""; ""A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms: old, new and recycled""; ""Words and Reality""; ""Classical and traditional tropes ""; ""Simile ""; ""Metaphor""; ""Personification ""; ""Metonymy ""; ""Synecdoche ""; ""Hyperbole ""; ""Paradox""; ""Oxymoron ""; ""Irony""; ""Euphemism""; ""Tautology (and other solecisms)""; ""Figures of time: ""; ""Ellipsis""; ""Catachresis""; ""Non-tropes and near tropes: image, sign, symbol, motif, archetype, stereotype ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612040245

9781783203680

1783203684

9781783203697

1783203692

9781282040243

1282040243

9781847600240

1847600247

OCLC:

697474308