(literally a turn) The element of poetry that includes all forms of comparison and transfer of meaning by means of which language means doubly. Since the late Middle Ages, trope has been associated with figures of thought rather than figures of speech. But rather than being completely separate, figures of thought connect with these figures of speech at the points where words achieve the greatest physicality owing to meter and rhyme and the layered doubleness of meaning known as pun (Kinzie, 1999).
InI 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 occasionally inspire quotation lovers everywhere.
In this intellectual smorgasbord, the author ofOxymoronicaandViva la Reparteeexplains figurative language in a refreshingly down-to-earth way before taking readers on a tour of history's greatest word pictures. In chapters on wit, love, sex, stage and screen, insults, politics, sports, and more, you will find quotations from Aristotle and Maya Angelou to George Washington and Oprah Winfrey.