Figuratively Speaking: Revised Edition

In This Book, The Author Examines Figures Of Speech That Concern Meaning--irony, Hyperbole, Understatement, Similes, Metaphors, And Others--to Show How They Work And To Explain Their Attraction. The Author Contends That Figurative Language Derives Its Power From The Insistence That The Reader Participate In The Text, Looking Beyond The Literal Meaning Of The Figurative Language To The Meanings That Are Implied. He Demonstrates That The Intellectual And Aesthetic Force Of Figurative Language Is Derived From The Opportunity It Provides For Unlimited Elaboration. Figurative Predications -- Figurative Comparisons: The Traditional View -- The Standard Criticisms Of Comparativism -- A Dilemma For Theories Of Metaphor -- A Theory Of Figurative Comparisons -- Elaborations. By Robert Fogelin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.