Love is a positive force! Without love, neither you nor anyone else on this planet would even exist in the first place. There is a secret to their success, and that is the power of love. But why is it that some people just seem to attract so much more positive than negative into their lives? Why do some people have great jobs, loving relationships and are always happy, while others are struggling to get through another day? There are only two forces at play: positive and negative, and anything that you experience can be categorized as either. What is The Power?Ĭontrary to what you might believe, life is simple. But you won’t need to have read “The Secret” to understand “The Power.” So get ready to learn how to get everything you always wanted. Rhonda Byrne wrote “The Power” as a sequel to “The Secret,” which explored the law of attraction and its effect on our lives. The analysis shows that storytelling is also employed by the author as a rhetorical device to persuade the audience of her thoughts.Are you struggling to make ends meet? Do you wish you were in a happy relationship or are you battling an illness? No matter what you want, there is a simple way to get it - you only have to utilize The Power.

She uses metaphorical expressions to deliver her message indirectly to convince the audience to adopt her ideas to call them for action. The paper concludes that metaphorical language is an integral part and pervasive in Byrne’s writing style. Metaphors will be analyzed according to Lakoff & Johnson’s (1980) perspective of metaphorical expressions and the “Speech Act Theory” proposed by Austin (1962) and Searle (1969). It will investigate the linguistic techniques which are employed in a way to persuade the audience to change their behavior or ideas and adopt new ones, especially the use of metaphorical expressions and storytelling.

The purpose of this paper is to focus on this crucial field of written discourse and best-selling books in particular. A lot of literature has been made on analyzing metaphors in different genres, yet how metaphorical language is employed in best-selling books gained little attention from discourse analysts, so this study comes to fill this gap in the literature. In this paper, an attempt is made to study the metaphorical language used in one of the best-selling books, The Secret, the Power by Rhonda Byrne (2010).

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