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"I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (praeteritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it - and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and read it - buy it and read it (epimone)."-Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modernā¦
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1 author picked Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
āClassical English rhetoricā? When I first discovered this book years ago, I had no idea what those words meant. But when I opened the book to browse, I found a treasure of techniques for writing powerful sentences. Many of these techniques are based on a fundamental idea of repetition; once I started practicing them, I couldnāt stop because they were so much fun! I learned to ignore their off-putting Latin names and concentrate on using them.
So many people have been told by classroom teachers that they should never repeat a word or phrase. However, repetition is a highly effectiveā¦
From Barbara's list on achieving writing excellence.
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