Description
Book SynopsisWriting with Clarity and Style, 2nd Edition, will help you to improve your writing dramatically. The book shows you how to use dozens of classical rhetorical devices to bring power, clarity, and effectiveness to your writing. You will also learn about writing styles, authorial personas, and sentence syntax as tools to make your writing interesting and persuasive. If you want to improve the appeal and persuasion of your speeches, this is also the book for you.
From strategic techniques for keeping your readers engaged as you change focus, down to the choice of just the right words and phrases for maximum impact, this book will help you develop a flexible, adaptable style for all the audiences you need to address.
Each chapter now includes these sections:
- Style Check, discussing many elements of style, including some enhanced and revised sections
- Define Your Terms, asking students to u
Table of Contents
Introduction
Index of Tables
Chapter 1: Balance
Parallelism
Chiasmus
Antithesis
Chapter 2: Emphasis I
Climax
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Sentential Adverb
Chapter 3: Emphasis II
Irony
Understatement
Litotes
Hyperbole
Chapter 4: Transition
Metabasis
Procatalepsis
Hypophora
Chapter 5: Clarity
Distinctio
Exemplum
Amplification
Metanoia
Chapter 6: Syntax I
Zeugma
Diazeugma
Prozeugma
Mesozeugma
Hypozeugma
Syllepsis
Chapter 7: Syntax II
Hyperbaton
Anastrophe
Appositive
Parenthesis
Chapter 8: Figurative Language I
Simile
Analogy
Metaphor
Catachresis
Chapter 9: Figurative Language II
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Personification
Chapter 10: Figurative Language III
Allusion
Eponym
Apostrophe
Transferred Epithet
Chapter 11: Restatement I
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Simploce
Chapter 12: Restatement II
Anadiplosis
Conduplicatio
Epanalepsis
Chapter 13: Restatement III
Diacope
Epizeuxis
Antimetabole
Scesis Onomaton
Chapter 14: Sound
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Consonance
Chapter 15: Drama
Rhetorical Question
Aporia
Apophasis
Anacoluthon
Chapter 16: Word Play
Oxymoron
Pun
Anthimeria
Appendix A: Blog Posting
Appendix B: Business Email
Appendix C: Counsellor’s Report About a Client
Appendix D: Graduate School Application Essay
Appendix E: Short Story
Appendix F: Winston Churchill—A Speaker’s Rhetoric
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