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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth — WisdomDeck honest review

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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

by Ward Farnsworth

Rhetorical figures, anaphora, chiasmus, litotes, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, Dickens. A pleasure and a toolkit.

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you want your prose and speeches to carry force.

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you want grammar.

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Three things you will actually use

Figures shape force.
Study masters.
Repeat deliberately.

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Read the chapter on anaphora.

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Rhetoric by example.

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