FARNSWORTH’S CLASSICAL ENGLISH METAPHOR By Ward Farnsworth

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface — vii

Sources and Uses of Comparisons — 3

The use of animals to describe humans — 22

The use of nature to describe abstractions — 46

The Use of Nature to describe Inner States — 65

The use of nature to describe language — 84

Human biology — 101

Extreme people and states — 116

Occupations and institutions — 126

Circumstances — 143

The classical world & other sources of story — 155

Architecture & other man-made things — 175

Personification — 195

The construction of similes — 204

The construction of metaphor — 227

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