Let's talk about schemes. Not schemes of the nefarious sort, but schemes of word order. There are various types, including schemes of repetition ("I have a dream that one day … I have a dream that one ...

Okay, so you may have read the headline and thought: "What's a chiasmus?" If you didn't, then you're way ahead of me and many others. I hadn't heard the word until I saw this new video from Netflix ...

From Snoop to Shakespeare, the tricks of rhetoric serve playwrights, singers, politicians and evangelists equally well. That is cause for celebration, not snobbery What do Snoop Dogg and Bruce Forsyth ...

I recently stumbled upon a list of “The Top 20 Figures of Speech.” The title alone intrigues me. Who initiated the competition? What were the qualifications for the judges? Did the entrants nominate ...

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 ...

Great Scott! Millions of moviegoers consider Back to the Future to be one of the most entertaining film trilogies of all time. With that many fans yearning for hoverboards and flux capacitors, it's a ...