Ever tried convincing someone to pick your favorite movie for movie night? Or maybe defended pineapple on a pizza? Whether you knew it or not, you were tapping into one of the oldest human traditions: ...

If registers of speech were dress codes, I’d clothe anadiplosis in “poetic-formal.” Poetic-formal because anadiplosis is stately—stately, in part, because it forces the prose to slow down. Back to the ...

Last week we took up these five simple rhetorical devices for attracting and holding the attention of readers or listeners: (1) repetition; (2) serial enumeration; (3) cumulation; (4) allusion; and (5 ...