Wakeful Words

Does your writing need a wake-up call?Discover how lively words can be as you study the art of rhetoric at the feet of the finest writers history has to offer. Rhetorical devices like simile and metaphor may be ancient, but unlike Rip Van Winkle, they don't get to sleep for decades. Great writers and speakers bring these techniques to life every day, whenever they break out a rhyme or build a metaphor.Taught by definition only, rhetorical devices can seem abstract and difficult to understand, but examples allow you pick them up, toss them from hand to hand, and carry them out of the school room and into the world. For every definition, Wakeful Words gives examples from Newbery winners, short stories, American and British novels, Shakespearean drama, ancient literature, and translations of the Bible. Whether you are an aspiring creative writer, a teacher of rhetoric, or a future world leader, you will benefit from the opportunity to learn by example.