# Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric %% Parent: [[Resources/Reading/Readwise/Books]] %%  ## Metadata - Author: [[Resources/People/Ward Farnsworth]] - Full Title: Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric - Category: #books ## Highlights - Rhetoric is a vast, old, and honorable discipline. It may be defined most broadly and simply as the use of language to persuade or otherwise affect an audience. ([Location 65](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B085H8NRL4&location=65)) - Repetition is one of the most important general ideas in rhetoric, ([Location 130](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B085H8NRL4&location=130)) - epimone (e-pi-mo-nee), or the repetition of phrases. ([Location 135](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B085H8NRL4&location=135)) - the use of the same word repeatedly, with other words between each repetition – a figure known as conduplicatio (con-du-pli-cat-ee-oh), or, especially when there are just a few other words between the repeated ones, diacope (di-ac-o-pee). ([Location 144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B085H8NRL4&location=144))