Practically everyone in the world knows that line, Forsyth said. “Indeed there was a recent poll in which that was voted the greatest ever one-liner in movie history.” Which, if you think about it, is ...

When you advertise your small business, you can compete with larger, more expensive ad campaigns by using the techniques big advertisers use. Rhetoric is the artful use of language, and the purpose of ...

At his rally in Montana on Thursday, President Donald Trump, to cheers and laughter from the crowd, praised Republican congressman Greg Gianforte for assaulting a reporter for the British newspaper ...

Joan Leach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is President of Australian Science Communicators and affiliated with the Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology. We ...

Examine speech as performance in this collection. Investigate the use of rhetorical devices as you watch these videos of speakers, who range from Winston Churchill to Josh Thomas. In most instances, a ...

President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Oslo on Thursday featured one of his favorite rhetorical devices: the false choice. “Within America, there has long been a tension between those who ...

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 ...

Kamala Harris speaks on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on August 22, 2024.. Photo: Getty Images The right words stir people to action.