This week I want to return to a delightful rhetorical and grammatical device, the chiasmus. What is it, how do you pronounce it, and what is it good for? These are the questions we will deal this week ...

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 ...

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 ...