Farnsworth Ward. Farnsworth’s Classical English Style

David R. Godine, Publisher, 2020, - 194 p. - ISBN: 9781567926668 (ebook)Say it with style — on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, Douglass, and other masters of the language. As Farnsworth says, “Explaining a precept may take just a few words, but only examples can make it familiar to the ear. So we will consider examples from writers and orators who all have lessons to teach.”Farnsworth shows how small choices of words, sentences, and paragraphs put force into writing and speech that has stood the test of time. What was the secret? Knowledge of choices in the selection of words, the arrangement of sentences, and the creation of a cadence. Now that knowledge can be yours through hundreds of examples of the very best use of rhetorical devices, classical cadence patterns, hyperbole, and much more.