ESSENTIAL stuff for compelling speeches - for building drama and emphasis and excitement as you work toward the conclusion. Working up toward it step by step by step. Repeating basic themes, illustrated by umpteen points. Point after Point after Point after Point. It's a litany.
They have to campaign on... (fill in the blank here, and you've got a hundred ways to do it)
They have to campaign on ... Fear.
They have to campaign on ... Racism.
They have to campaign on ... Sexism. ... Misogyny. ... Xenophobia. ... Lies. ... Insulting rhetoric. And on. And on.
AND THEN, she does it again, with a DIFFERENT repetition: "It's the party that..."
It's the party that ... has elevated the corrupt..."
It's the party that ... has abandoned everything it once stood for..."
It's the party that ... now defends..."
This kind of writing is shrewd as all-get-out. As far as formulating, and then delivering A MESSAGE, over and over again, with different accessory phrases that STILL reinforce that same message. And that illustrate how many different ways that message applies and manifests. As in - "Let me count the ways."
It's a LITANY. It's a freakin' LITANY! A thousand years of Catholic monotone sing-song prayer-chanting can't be wrong!
It is very shrewd, effective, and MEMORABLE writing, speechifying, and delivering a message. Just listen to the speakers at the next convention, and how they build to a crescendo by making point after point after point, engrossing the crowd and building their intensity.
AND in a whole series of descriptive one-liners. That rhythmic repetition just pounds the message in. Line after Line after Line. POUNDS it in like the steady strikes of hammer against nailhead. Until the nail is driven all the way down into place.
DAYUM this is good stuff. Read her and LEARN.
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