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 ...

Rhetoric is often defined as “the art of language.” That might sound like a bit of a cliché (which it is), but it’s actually quite a nice way of saying that rhetorical devices and figures of speech ...