Figures of speech

Here are entered general works and works on figures of speech in the English language. Works treating of figures of speech in other languages are entered under the name of the language, with subdivision Figures of speech.

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• Rhetoric
• Symbolism
• English language

• Metaphor
• Paradox

• English language -- Figures of speech
• Imagery
• Speech, Figures of
• Tropes

• More on Oxymoron, by Patrick Hughes (PDF at patrickhughes.co.uk)

• Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change, by Peter Suber (HTML at Earlham)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Arte of Rhetorique, by Thomas Wilson (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985), by Adam Smith, ed. by J. C. Bryce (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• On the Sublime (London and New York: Macmillan, 1890), by Longinus, trans. by H. L. Havell, contrib. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• On the Sublime, by Longinus, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at classicpersuasion.org)
• Phaedrus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Adelaide)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Indexing and Précis Writing (London: Macmillan, 1908), by G. B. Beak (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Précis Writing for Beginners (London: Blackie and Son, ca.1917), by Guy Noel Pocock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Progressive Course of Précis Writing (1913), by Frederick Eden Robeson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Usefulness of Analytic Abstracts (1922), by Gordon S. Fulcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue, by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)
• Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by David Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Critical Attitude (London: Duckworth and Co., 1911), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century, With Introduction and Notes (New York et al.: C. Scribner's Sons, c1921), ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Critical I, by Norman Norwood Holland (HTML at ufl.edu)
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, H. Miford, c1916), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (Gutenberg text)
• Essays Literary and Critical, by Matthew Arnold (DjVu at archive.org)
• Framing Theory's Empire (2007), ed. by John Holbo (PDF with commentary at Parlor Press)
• The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, by Matthew Arnold (HTML at Toronto)
• The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (main text only; some peripheral sections omitted), by John Dennis (HTML at Toronto)
• Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
• Legacies of Paul de Man (2005), ed. by Marc Redfield (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Literary Criticism From the Elizabethan Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by David Klein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Criticism: A Lecture Delivered at Columbia University, March 9, 1910 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911), by Joel Elias Spingarn (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Kenneth Burke, ed. by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF and Flash with commentary at parlorpress.com)
• The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920 edition), by T. S. Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

• The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate (New York et al.: Ivison and Phinney, 1855), by James N. McElligott (multiple formats at Google)
• The Art of Controversy (in German and English), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by T. Bailey Saunders
  • HTML at coolhaus.de
  • Gutenberg text
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Literature and Cognition, by Jerry R. Hobbs (PDF at Stanford)

• Practice Book, Leland Powers School (1909), by Leland Powers (Gutenberg text)
• Public Speaking: Principles and Practice, by Irvah Lester Winter (Gutenberg text)

• Invention in Rhetoric and Composition (2004), by Janice M. Lauer (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Peter J. Rabinowitz, contrib. by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, ideology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America (2007), by Sarah H. Beckjord (PDF files at PSU)
• Understanding Narrative (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1994), ed. by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)

• The Art of Extempore Speaking: Hints for the Pulpit, the Senate, and the Bar (with additions by "a member of the New York bar"; 6th edition; New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1869), by L. Bautain (multiple formats at Google)
• How to Attract and Hold an Audience: A Practical Treatise on the Nature, Preparation, and Delivery of Public Discourse (New York: Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, c1902), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study (1910), ed. by Grenville Kleiser (Gutenberg text)
• Public Speaking: Principles and Practice, by Irvah Lester Winter (Gutenberg text)

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