Chapter 83 Good at using different vocabulary to restate your main points

Napoleon considered repetition to be the most important principle in rhetoric.This is so because he knew that an idea that is familiar to the speaker does not necessarily mean it is familiar to the audience. After all, it takes time for people to accept a new idea, and it also requires people to be familiar with it. Think persistently.In short, in your speech, you should restate your important points.Of course, you don't have to use the same words over and over again, in fact, if you keep using new words, the audience won't even realize you're restating your point. Mr. Bryan, who died not long ago, once said:

In a speech, if you don’t know much about the topic, then the audience won’t understand either. As the saying goes, “How can you make others shine when you’re in a daze?” And if you understand the topic more deeply, the audience will understand it better. It will also be understood more clearly. In this passage, the last sentence is merely a repetition of the previous one, but in a speech one has no time for that.Moreover, the audience will only feel more clearly understood. In the course of my teaching, there are a few lectures every semester-if the speaker pays attention to the important principle of repetition, he can express himself more clearly.However, contrary to expectations, beginners often overlook this point, how embarrassing it is!