Analysis (from “W. S.”) The text under analysis is an extract from the story W. S. by the well-known English novelist Leslie Poles Hartley. He wrote a number of novels and made a weighty contribution to English fiction. His best-known novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1947) and The Go-Between (1953). In the very beginning of the given extract‚ Walter Streeter‚ the main character‚ gets the postcard from Forfar. The sender‚ W.S.‚ asks whether he really thinks that he is really gets to grips
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in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. For example‚ “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-short” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases. In the former‚ all the words start with the “s” sound‚ while in the later‚ the “p’s” take precedence. Aside from tongue twisters‚ alliteration is also used in poems‚ song lyrics‚ and even store or brand names. The following examples of alliteration should make things a bit more clear. * American
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech is one of the most successful and most legendary speeches in United States history. Martin Luther King Jr. was a masterful speaker‚ who established a strong command of rhetorical strategies. By his eloquent use of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos‚ as well as his command of presentation skills and rhetorical devices‚ King was able to persuade his generation that "the Negro is not free" (King 1). His speech became the rallying cry for civil rights and lives
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English Speech “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it” –Rick Warren. The struggle of individuals to belong and find their role in society has a significant impact upon their everyday lives. One’s cultural heritage and ideologies serve as a powerful obstacle preventing individuals from belonging and conforming to society. 10 Mary Street‚ Postcards and Memoirs of a Geisha collectively represent the struggle to belong as an evasive and difficult process that results in a loss of identity
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Friday night. Organizational Pattern: Informative Intended Audience: Comm 101 class Introduction I. Attention-Getting Device: How many of you guys think that you are the world’s worst bowler? I bet you didn’t know that the lowest game ever bowled by a man on ABC men’s league is two. Mike Kappa‚ of Racine‚ Wisconsin‚ accomplished his outrageous score by throwing 18 gutter balls. However Richard Caplette‚ of Danielson‚ Connecticut‚ who threw nineteen in one game
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Topic: S.992 Persuasive Speech of Public Policy I. Purpose of presentation A. General Purpose: To persuade B. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to take action to urge their congress person to vote against S.992 - The National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act II Introduction / Attention A. Gain attention: Picture this. Your loved one had surgery yesterday. A nurse is fixing their morphine drip when their manager comes in and tells the nurse they are required to take
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Informative Speech Outline April 15th 2012 A Piece of the Puzzle General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: By the end of my speech the audience will be able to tell people certain things about autistic people. Thesis Statement: It is difficult living with autism Introduction A. Attention-getter: It was the Saturday before our topic choice was due‚ for professor Lee’s class. I was stressing‚ I could not figure out what to talk about. I literally google searched informative speech topics
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Outline for a speech Sperm Whales October 8th‚ 2014 I. Introduction A. The Picture on slide 2: Artists rendition of the story Moby Dick. Give a quick synopsis of Moby Dick (Albino Sperm Whale). B. Moby was seen as evil. Most sperm whales were seen as evil for decades because of their huge size and teeth. It has been recently learned that sperm whales are not dangerous to humans‚ so today I will be enlightening you about the sperm whale. C. In this speech I will describe the anatomy of a sperm whale
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Dyna Rose M. Templonuevo SPCM1 S-4R GENERIC AND BRANDED MEDICINES SPECIFIC SPEECH PURPOSE: At the end of my speech‚ I want my classmates to be enlightened regarding the effectiveness of generic and branded medicines. THESIS STATEMENT: Professionals say that brand (proprietary) name and generic (nonproprietary) name medicines are both reliable because the active ingredients in it are the same but one is cheaper than the other. OUTLINE OF THE SPEECH THE INTRODUCTION I. ATTENTION
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on eight parts of speech: the verb‚ the noun‚ the pronoun‚ the adjective‚ the adverb‚ the preposition‚ the conjunction‚ and the interjection. Each part of speech explains not what the word is‚ but how the word is used. In fact‚ the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word ’s part of speech can change from one sentence to the next‚ and following them is a series of sections on the individual parts of speech‚ followed by an exercise
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