Lists. We love them. We use them. We write "1. Make a list" at the beginning of each list just so we have the pleasure of drawing a line through it and thinking "Aaah. Completed."But lists aren't j...

Sometimes a speaker repeats the same word at the beginning of several sentences to emphasize a point. Sometimes this is annoying. Sometimes this is poetic. Sometimes, this makes for history-shaking...

The writer and literary theorist Kenneth Burke came up with the idea of "identification" as a form of persuasion. Basically, to be persuaded, you need to identify with the speaker. (Source)This is...