Characteristics of Effective and Ineffective Speakers Effective 1. Confidence - Confidence comes from believing in what you are saying and being passionate about your subject. Self-confidence is developed by knowing everything you can about your subject and thoroughly preparing and practicing. 2. Likeability - As a general rule your listeners want to like you. When they do like you it makes delivering your speech easier. Your likeability is helped by smiling and being positive and friend
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least you know.” (2-3). The changes in the speaker happens every line. The First speaker is explaining concepts such as: saying distance between objects the correct way‚ and how maps are of time of time not place. The second speaker acknowledges the first speaker and tells him‚ “Again‚ you know.”(9). The first speaker can be characterized as a beginner who just recently joined the army. He is unsure on how to speak in a militaristic fashion. The second speaker is a higher ranking official with many years
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structure of In Time of Plague puts us in the mind of the speaker and gives us his view of the conversation that is taking place in the gay bar. The first stanza of the poem it introduces the reader that the speaker is thinking about the plague that is happening within the gay community of AIDS‚ and despite this he cannot control his sexual attraction. This is shown when two handsome men named Brad and John ask him to shoot up‚ the speaker is almost hypnotized by these two men’s appearances that he
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Child and Father Relationships In "Those Winter Sundays" and "My Papa’s Waltz" "Sundays too my father got up early and / And put his clothes on in the blueback cold" comes from Robert Hayden’s "Those Winter Sundays" and describes the life of the speaker who reminisces of the childhood experiences that were spent with the speaker’s father (1-2). "At every step you missed / My right ear scraped a buckle" comes from Theodore Roethke’s "My Papa’s Waltz and also exemplifies a past relationship between
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youth‚ the speaker is too excited by duty and too tempted by the wealth that nature holds to control his desire to destroy it. His defilement of nature’s innocence‚ however‚ immediately disturbs him‚ causing him to question the value of material wealth and to realize the importance of nature‚ something that the speaker in the present now recognizes and shows in his interjections throughout the poem. Told to collect hazelnuts in the forest by the woman he works for‚ the young speaker enthusiastically
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about a powerful dislike for sex on the part of the speaker. The author’s negative perception and bitterness towards sex sets the tone and introduces other issues. Looking closer at the images reveals the deeper issue to be with being loved by another. Gluck portrays the light of the night‚ the act of sex‚ and the lasting disgust after sex‚ by quickly getting to the point. The first five lines are about the Mock Orange plant and how the speaker feels about it: It is not the moon‚ I tell you
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that’s something I can’t afford to forget. Q26. What does the speaker say about customers’ entering the grocery store? Q27. Which customers are supposed to be in the express line? Q28. What does the speaker say some customers do when they arrive at the check-out counter? Q29. What does the speaker say about his job at the end of the talk? Passage 2 The speech delivery style of Europeans and Asians tends to be very formal. Speakers of these cultures often read oral presentations from carefully
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this poem develop the situation in which the speaker has found himself. He has led a long and successful life and is still on track for going to heaven upon his death. Apples are used as a metaphor for his wealth‚ not just monetary wealth‚ but rather everything that he has accumulated during his life. "And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill" implies there are a few more things that he would have liked to have had accomplished in his lifetime. The speaker follows this recognition of his own mortality
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also reveals quite a bit about the speaker’s past. The speaker is referring to her inner self as the “bitch” and her hurt condition is clearly present throughout the poem. She uses words such as “bark‚ growling‚ slobbers and whimper” to drive this meaning across to the reader. It is in the speaker’s own representation of her inner self as a “bitch‚” one that not only “bark[s] hysterically‚” but also may “whimper‚” and even “cringe". The speaker is easily inclined to remember past memories from the
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By now‚ the magnitude of loss has grown almost too great to bear—the speaker has lost cities‚ realms‚ rivers‚ and a continent. These are literally huge things—huger than watches or keys in terms of matter alone—but the speaker is able to wave them off by claiming that “it wasn’t a disaster” to lose these‚ either. Whether we believe the speaker or not is subjective. Some may read the last line as jovially dismissive as the rest of the speaker’s dismissals to this point—a “whatever‚” to use modern
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