‘Ultimately in a speech‚ it is the effective representation of ideas that captivates audiences.’ In compelling speeches it is not only the content‚ but the appropriate use of rhetoric techniques and structure which reveal and emphasise key ideas and captivate the audience. This has been shown in Margaret Atwood’s speech‚ Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) as well as Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech‚ the Keynote Address at the Beijing Conference on Women (1995). These two speeches focus on the role of
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The film Metropolis is a unique film. If one thinks about the time in which the film was made and then thinks of how little technology was available to the film industry‚ they would see how awesome the film truly is. A specific scene that had two camera angles involved in it was when Maria was saving all the children from the flooding. It was filmed with a crane‚ but it also moved around her on a dolly to show all the children gathering around her. This scene involved two common camera shots that
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Writing stories with dark twist and unlucky characters is how Jackson set the mood and tone of the story‚ however she does this with a couple of literary tools such as repeating phrases over and over again. In the story “The Tooth” an example of this is when Clara keeps telling her husband “I feel so funny” [Jackson 207]. By having Clara repeat this throughout the story it is foreshadowing that something bad is going to happen to her. Along with foreshadowing her inevitable bad luck coming her way
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Although that the film is a rural comedy‚ Berlanga imitates some of the most important film genres: western‚ film noir‚ epics and Soviet Realism. These different genres‚ most of them American‚ are used in the dream sequences of the film. With those dreams‚ the director tried to explain the fears and ambitions of the characters and to make a relationship between the genres and the ideology of the characters. The first character that we see dreaming in the film is Don Cosme who is the priest of the
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time by emphasizing the march scenes using camera angles‚ editing‚ and sound. It also focused on the interactions between Dr. King and Lyndon B. Johnson‚ which was a very important factor in determining how Dr. King acted in Selma. The movie used editing and camera angles to accentuate the emotions of people during certain scenes‚ and set the tone for the entire movie. In the first scene‚ there were five black teenage girls
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were things such as Kyle’s yellow car and some scenes which had either red wallpaper or red seats. However‚ there are two primary color that we see throughout the whole movie‚ blue and brown. This is shown through Kyle Hadly and Mitch Wayne and is used to represent them as distinct characters. These elements support the mise-en-scene of the movie and helps us further understand the characters and story. One reason for the color scheme of the character’s costumes could be that the muted brown shades
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Measure.” The epigraph of the poem “Mariana in the moted grange” is taken from a reference of this play‚ and the narrative techniques within the poem combined with the context of the isolation of the character give us an insight into the melancholy that not only the character of Mariana feels‚ but perhaps also Tennyson himself. Arguably the most prominent narrative technique used by Tennyson is the imagery within the powm which is an outward manifestation of Mariana’s inward melancholy. The monotonous
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In The Truman Show‚ the director Peter Weir uses various film techniques to have effect on the audience and make them feel different emotions. The film techniques that he uses are camera angles‚ music and sound and lighting. The major technique that is used in this film is camera angles. Throughout the film there are various camera angles‚ the main shots that Weir uses are angled‚ tilted shots to show that there are hidden cameras filming Truman. When Truman is driving in his car the camera is
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Often in novels‚ the author is able to personify and use the setting as an imperative aspect of a story such that it could almost take the form of a character. For Homer Hickam Jr. (Sonny)‚ Coalwood was not only his hometown‚ but it became his motivation to continue building and launching his rockets. Every house in Coalwood was occupied with families of coal miners‚ and for someone to participate in another activity besides football was rare and often discouraged. “Only coal mining was more important
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“I veered off my course to follow the stream‚ running downhill along the slippery stones‚ faster now that I was out of the snow. My body waited for the inevitable bullet...” (179). Lev and Kolya has met up with Partisans and begins marching to a nearby city. Before even arriving at the city‚ they smell that the Germans have set the entire city on fire. Without any other choices‚ they are forced to spend the rest of the night at a safehouse that the Partisan’s own. They are awoken to someone saying
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