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 ...

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As of Tuesday, the video of the new single by Korean pop singer Psy had been watched 89 million times. One wonders how many of these viewers were those who blogged that he could only be a one-hit ...

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 ...