How To Have The Language Intelligence Of Abraham Lincoln: 'The Greatest Thing By far Is To Be A Master Of Metaphor'

From ThinkProgress Sat Dec 8 2012, 19:00:07

How Lincoln framed his picture-perfect Gettysburg Address Using An Extended metaphor The terrific Spielburg movie on our 16th President provides a stunning contrast to the failure of Obama to be a rhetorically inspiring leader on climate. In my first post, I looked at how Lincoln had mastered the figures of speech, especially irony, with the [...]

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