(public speaking) Hints For Using Triples Posted By : Thomas Christopher

Readers can always go back and reread a passage if they don't remember what it said, but listeners cannot go back and re-listen. To have an audience remember your point, it is important for your words to be arranged in a memorable fashion. One of the easiest ways to help people remember a list is to put three items in it and to link them in some fashion. Ben Franklin's verse links the first two items with rhyme and the last two with alliteration. Using three items in the list goes a great deal of the way, but making those items fit together is important to get the most use out of tricolon. THOMAS CHRISTOPHER offers information on how to be a wit on the web page, How To Create Witty Sayings .

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