Writing with Clarity and Style A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers 1st Edition by Robert Harris ISBN 9781884585487, 1884585485
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ISBN 10: 1884585485
ISBN 13: 9781884585487
Author: Robert A. Harris
“Writing with Clarity and Style: A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers” by Robert A. Harris introduces over sixty rhetorical devices, explained with clear definitions and examples. Designed for students and writers, the book shows how to apply these techniques to improve clarity, persuasion, and style in modern writing.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Balance
1.1 Parallelism
1.2 Chiasmus
1.3 Antithesis
Style Check 1: Rhythm
Chapter 2: Emphasis I
2.1 Climax
2.2 Asyndeton
2.3 Polysyndeton
2.4 Expletive
Style Check 2: Demetrius on Beginning and Ending Stress
Chapter 3: Emphasis II
3.1 Irony
3.2 Understatement
3.3 Liters
3.4 Hyperbole
Style Check 3: Emphatic Positioning
Chapter 4: Transition
4.1 Metabasis
4.2 Procatalepsis
4.3 Hypophora
Style Check 4: Transitions of Logic
Chapter 5: Clarity
5.1 Distinctio
5.2 Exemplum
5.3 Amplification
5.4 Metanoia
Style Check 5: Clear versus Opaque Writing
Chapter 6: Figurative Language I
6.1 Simile
6.2 Analogy
6.3 Metaphor
6.4 Catachresis
Style Check 6: Demetrius on Metaphor
Chapter 7: Figurative Language II
7.1 Metonymy
7.2 Synecdoche
7.3 Personification
Style Check 7: Freshness
Chapter 8: Figurative Language III
8.1 Allusion
8.2 Eponym
8.3 Apostrophe
8.4 Transferred Epithet
Style Check 8: Persona
Chapter 9: Syntax I
9.1 Zeugma
9.2 Diazeugma
9.3 Prozeugma
9.4 Mesozeugma
9.5 Hypozeugma
9.6 Syllepsis
Style Check 9: Cumulative and Periodic Sentences
Chapter 10: Syntax II
10.1 Hyperbaton
10.2 Anastrophe
10.3 Appositive
10.4 Parenthesis
Style Check 10: Parataxis and Hypotaxis
Chapter 11: Restatement I
11.1 Anaphora
11.2 Epistrophe
11.3 Symploce
Style Check 11: Demetrius on Short Sentences for Emphasis
Chapter 12: Restatement II
12.1 Anadiplosis
12.2 Conduplicatio
12.3 Epanalepsis
Style Check 12: Style
Chapter 13: Restatement III
13.1 Diacope
13.2 Epizeuxis
13.3 Antimetabole
13.4 Scesis Onomaton
Style Check 13: Demetrius on Increasing Vividness
Chapter 14: Sound
14.1 Alliteration
14.2 Onomatopoeia
14.3 Assonance
14.4 Consonance
Style Check 14: Texture
Chapter 15: Drama
15.1 Rhetorical Question
15.2 Aporia
15.3 Apophasis
15.4 Anacoluthon
Style Check 15: The Levels of Style
Chapter 16: Word Play
16.1 Oxymoron
16.2 Pun
16.3 Anthimeria
Style Check 16: Tone
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