FIGURES OF SPEECH 05/04/2010 AcademicWritingSkills FIGURES OF SPEECH A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways. ways 05/04/2010 AcademicWritingSkills FIGURES OF SPEECH y y A figure of speech is a use of a word that h diverges d f from its normall meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning n t based not b s d on n the th literal lit l meaning m nin of f the th words in it such as a metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification
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Speech act From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For the United States law against libel tourism‚ see SPEECH Act. A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication. According to Kent Bach‚ "almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once‚ distinguished by different aspects of the speaker’s intention: there is the act of saying something‚ what one does in saying it‚ such as requesting or promising
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Free speech is extremely important‚ but there were times in the past when it was limited‚ for example‚ the Klansas City Kable and the Alien and Sedition Act‚ when the government was justified for doing so. Free speech plays an essential role in our democracy. Where would we be without free speech? There is no point in democracy if you can’t express yourself. Our freedom depends on free speech. If we didn’t have free speech‚ we wouldn’t be able to freely state our opinions. Another reason why free
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Fall seven times get up eight is an old proverb my grandma and mom use to tell me. Hello‚ my name is Nicole and I would like to tell you some details about myself. First of all I would like to start with my family. I have a brother (age 9) and a sister (age 12). My parents were in the middle of getting a divorce right around the time when my dad passed away. I consider my mom one of my best friends and she is one of the few people I can go to whenever I need advice. I have not lived with them
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Essay On Why a Scholarship Will Benefit Me As a High School graduate in 2003‚ I focused on making money full-time and furthering my education part-time. At age 20‚ I became a single mother. A few years later‚ I had my second child. I continued to pursue my education off and on over the years. I was focused on getting my Associate’s in Business. In 2009 I attended a 10 month program that certified me as a Medical Assistant. I thought that certification would reward me with higher paying positions
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List of Figures Of Speech Personification Personification is all about adding a human trait to an inanimate object or an abstraction. For example: The picture in that magazine shouted for attention. Simile A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things or ideas using "like" or "as" to accentuate a certain feature of an object by comparing it to a dissimilar object that is a typical example of that particular trait. For example: as big as a bus‚ as clear as a bell‚ as dry as
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Manalili‚ Maper Anne T. III-14 AB/BSE Literature FIGURE OF SPEECH A figure of speech is 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. FIGURES OF SPEECH | EXAMPLE (in Filipino Language/Context) | 1. SIMILE - an explicit comparison that is made between two essentially unlike things‚ usually using ‘like’‚ ‘as’ or ‘than’. | Mala-porselana ang kutis
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In 1996 at Bonneville High school in Ogden‚ Utah a young foreign exchange student from Poland sat with her friend eating lunch. As she gazed upward she could see into the window of one of the history classes. To her horror‚ visible to the entire student body was displayed a Nazi flag. The flag was being displayed as part of a class on World War II and was displayed next to a Japanese flag‚ newspaper clippings‚ and other memorabilia to highlight certain aspects of that time period. After asking
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311 Demonstration Speech Video Assignment Upon completing my demonstration speech on how to make my Perfectly Pipeable Buttercream Frosting I knew that I could have done better. I was worried about timing and got jumbled. In saying this‚ I do not think that my speech was bad. There were things I did well on and some that I did not do so well on. I am moderately okay with the way my speech turned out. I believe that my introduction was possibly the strongest part of my speech because that is where
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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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