FIGURE OF SPEECH : A mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet’s sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader. Some important figures of speech are: simile‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ hyperbole and symbol. Adjunction: Adjunction refers to a clause or a phrase‚ usually a verb‚ that is added at the beginning
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Project In Speech and Oral Comm. Submitted by: Course/Section: Marinela Pineda BSTM-H2T Submitted to: Dr. Antonio Yango INFORMATIVE SPEECH Good evening. Tonight‚ I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden‚ the leader of al Qaeda‚ and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men‚ women‚ and children. It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day
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Freedom of Speech Meredith Kerr Charles W. Locke U.S. History 121-03 9-27-99 Imagine a time when one could be fined‚ imprisoned and even killed for just simply speaking one ’s mind. Speech is the basic vehicle for communication of beliefs‚ thoughts and ideas. Without the right to speak one ’s mind freely one would be forced to agree with everything society stated. With freedom of speech one ’s own ideas can be expressed freely and the follower ’s belief will be stronger. The words
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encounter a lot of homeless people & that you feel pity for them. We really want to make you understand how you can speculate the different ways on how you can help these people & get interested in them‚ as it would change their lives. Throughout this speech‚ Malou will give you a brief overview on the organization’s history‚ their goal & their values. Then‚ Nahira is going to develop the programs that they offer for children & elders going through poverty. And finally‚ Ash will explain to you how the
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Identify Parts of Speech 1 It is not important that you be able to identify every part of speech in every sentence. You have developed a sufficient command of the tools of the trade‚ or the parts of speech‚ if you can identify the part of speech of each word underlined in the paragraphs below. Observe how the words are used in these sentences before filling in the blanks with noun‚ pronoun‚ verb‚ adjective‚ adverb‚ preposition‚ or conjunction. The world is full of highly competent‚ intelligent
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No one can deny that freedom of speech is one of the most basic rights in democracies both in the United States and abroad. Unlimited freedom of speech however‚ is an unrealistic expectation for many reasons. The most pressing one being a violent reaction to hate speech. We must be able to seek a balance between freedom of expression and censorship of religious and racial hatred. Hate speech is a type of speech that incites other people to hate a certain group in society defined by common characteristics
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Pit bulls are a hilarious and adorable breed to own. They are one of the most understated dog breeds on the earth. Pit bulls have one of the most complex histories of any species of dog‚ can be extremely cute and cuddly‚ and are not mean in any way‚ shape‚ or form. Pit bulls have many different stories of where they came from. According to Jon Bastian‚ the pit bull originated in the 1000’s A.D. They started in Greece. Then eventually Britain took the dogs from Greece and started breeding them there
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The King’s Speech When I think about the film The King’s Speech I think of personal problem and courage. King Gorge VI had a personal problem and that he stammered. This problem made him unable to do his task like giving speech to people. He tried hard to overcome this problem. Sometimes he got disappointed and felt he failed and is not a good fit for his job. I saw how he sometimes became hopeless and disappointed. Also courage comes in my mind when I think of this film. The King decided
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Connected speech What is connected speech? When we speak naturally we do not pronounce a word‚ stop‚ then say the next word in the sentence. Fluent speech flows with a rhythm and the words bump into each other. To make speech flow smoothly the way we pronounce the end and beginning of some words can change depending on the sounds at the beginning and end of those words. These changes are described as features of connected speech. Various features contribute to characterise natural connected
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The Production of Speech Sounds How can we produce speech? In this section we will study the production of speech sounds from an articulatory point of view in order to understand better subsequent sections about vowel and consonant sounds. It must be said that speech does not start in the lungs. It starts in the brain and it is‚ then‚ studied by Psycholinguistics. After the creation of the message and the lexico-grammatical structure in our mind‚ we need a representation of the sound sequence
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