I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like - A Comprehensive Compilation of History s Greatest Analogies,

In I Never Metaphor I Didn''t Like, quotation maven Dr. Mardy Grothe fixes his attention on the three superstars of figurative language-analogies, metaphors, and similes. The result is an extraordinary compilation of nearly 2,000 feats of association that will entertain, educate, and inspire writers. In this intellectual smorgasbord, the author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee explains figurative language in a refreshingly down-to-earth way before taking students on a tour of history''s greatest word pictures. In chapters on wit, love, sex, stage and screen, insults, politics, sports, and more, students will find quotations from Aristotle and Maya Angelou to George Washington and Oprah Winfrey.

About the author

 Dr. Mardy Grothe is a retired psychologist, management consultant, and platform speaker; the author of six books on words and language; the creator of Dr. Mardy’s Dictionary of Metaphorical Quotations; and one of America’s most beloved quotation anthologists. He lives in Southern Pines, North Carolina, with his wife, Katherine Robinson.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Mardy Grothe, Mardy Grothe, GROTHE MARDY
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2008
• EAN: 9780061358135
• ISBN: 978-0-06-135813-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 181 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Humour, Sport: general, Social and cultural history, Renaissance style, Humour collections and anthologies, HISTORY: Social History, HUMOR: Form / Essays, HUMOR: Topic / Sports, HUMOR: General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, REFERENCE: Quotations, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: ON LANGUAGE, LITERARY CRITICISM: Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM: Humor