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Seductive Academic Writing Seductive Academic Writing By Danyal Freeman Seductive Academic Writing By Danyal Freeman This book first published 2018 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2018 by Danyal Freeman All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-0579-0 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-0579-7 For my parents TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: Why writing without figures of speech is like cooking blindfolded Chapter One ................................................................................................. 3 A Coroner Investigates Dead Academic Writer About this Book Chapter Two ................................................................................................ 9 Wither and Whither the Figures? Three Tales A Paradox A Problem An Oxymoron Seductive Academic Writing Part II: Figures of speech for seductive academic writing Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 21 Figures of Music and Repetition Introduction Parallelism and her Family Isocolon Music for Cohesion Parallelism, your Conductor Tricolon Rules for Lists Asyndeton Polysyndeton Anaphora Epistrophe Anadiplosis Alliteration and Assonance Summary viii Table of Contents Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 47 Figures of Similarity and Difference Introduction Analogy and Simile Analogies for Comprehension Analogies for Clarity Analogies for Coherence Analogies for Arguments The Vernacular Academic Unearthing Metaphor Mastering Metaphor Extending Metaphor Metaphors for Coherence Metaphorical Sunken Cars Metaphors Unbounded Metonymy and Synecdoche Personification Tells Stories Personification Signals Egregious Ergatives Synesthesia Antithesis Platinum Antithesis Chiasmus Summary Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 73 Figures of Expansion and Contraction Introduction Anecdote Dialogismus Talk to your Readers Rhetorical Questions Rhetorical Questions for Effects Epiplexis Parenthesis Parenthetically Speaking Adding the Essentially Unessential Summary Seductive Academic Writing ix Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 89 Figures of Play and Mischief Introduction Lightening the Load The Surprise of Laughter Irony Ridicule Litotes Ridicule Redux Paradox Paradox Standing Truth on her Head Paradoxes to Console and to Chide Paradoxes and Wit Wordplay Puns Summary Part III: Figuring out more seductive academic prose Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 107 Physician, Heal Thyself! Admonishing the Sins of Academese Bene Dicendi Noblesse Oblige The Rhetoric of Academese Applied Linguistics Spreads Academese Tales from the Front Line Figuring out More Seductive Academic Prose Optimism Leads the Way Bibliography ............................................................................................ 119 Index ........................................................................................................ 129
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