Three is Key: Literary Devices to Lean On

Why humor writers can benefit from using the comic triple and the rule of three.

Three is everywhere.

From the Three Stooges to The Holy Trinity, the three-act structure to advertising slogans like Snap, Crackle, Pop.

In writing, the rule of three is the concept that humans are very good at processing literary information through pattern recognition and three is the smallest number that cements in a reader’s mind, possibly better tha…