{"id":15860,"date":"2026-01-23T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/?p=15860"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:31:50","slug":"figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-spacer\" style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c<em>All styles of discourse, the elevated, the middle, and the simple, are enhanced by the rhetorical figures we shall discuss later. When used sparingly, they elevate speech as colors would.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quintilian, <em>Institutio Oratoria<\/em>, Book IV, 1st century AD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"857\" src=\"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FIGURES-Vase-et-pot-1-1200x857.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FIGURES-Vase-et-pot-1-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FIGURES-Vase-et-pot-1-900x643.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FIGURES-Vase-et-pot-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FIGURES-Vase-et-pot-1-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FIGURES-Vase-et-pot-1-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I wished to continue my exploration of the links between design and literature by focusing on a linguistic process: figures of speech. The primary function of figures of speech is to give language greater expressiveness and vitality: to animate, substitute, oppose, emphasize, soften\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this process gives a text its literary character, can it give design its artistic character? Can language become a designer\u2019s raw material? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Figures<\/em> collection is a material representation of figures of speech such as anadiplosis, accumulation, and litotes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1352\" height=\"1808\" src=\"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Capture-decran-2026-01-23-a-20.03.10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Capture-decran-2026-01-23-a-20.03.10.png 1352w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Capture-decran-2026-01-23-a-20.03.10-673x900.png 673w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Capture-decran-2026-01-23-a-20.03.10-897x1200.png 897w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Capture-decran-2026-01-23-a-20.03.10-768x1027.png 768w, https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Capture-decran-2026-01-23-a-20.03.10-1149x1536.png 1149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1352px) 100vw, 1352px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5vw\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll styles of discourse, the elevated, the middle, and the simple, are enhanced by the rhetorical figures we shall discuss later. When used sparingly, they elevate speech as colors would.\u201d Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book IV, 1st century AD. I wished to continue my exploration of the links between design and literature by focusing on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fragments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15860"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15895,"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions\/15895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthony-guerree.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}