Think of the best speaker you have ever heard. What did he or she do that made such an impression upon you? How much of the impression was due to delivery or language style? Now that you know more about style and delivery‚ discuss what you think the speaker’s strategy was. In the past 10 years‚ I was very much influenced by the speeches given by our ex-president Dr.A.P.J Abdul kalam. Unlike other presidents with political background‚ Dr.Kalam popularly known as “Missile man of India” for his work
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passion for throughout both the first and second stanzas. The poem shifts within the last and final stanza. Within this stanza‚ the speaker has a different aspect for the man who she has love for. The theme of the poem is found within the last stanza and it conveys the idea of “When something is repeatedly happening‚ it will eventually get old”. Dorothy Parker is the speaker of this poem. The audience is considered as the readers of this poem. Dorothy is passionate for the man who she loves declaring
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Making an Informative Speech When you make an informative speech you are explaining something to your audience. An informative speech can be a description of an object‚ a demonstration of a process‚ a report about an event‚ or an explanation of a concept (Menke)‚ but make sure that the speech is also useful for your audience because it is relevant and it provides "a thoughtful or unique insight on the topic" (Phillips‚ n.d.). Here is more from Terry O’brien Menke on what an informative speech
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an individual to continue to grow despite the absence of a guiding figure in his or her life. Through an extended metaphor‚ and the use of peaceful imagery‚ suitable for a time of self-discovery‚ the speaker shows how the progression of a tree through the seasons reflects the progression of the speaker through a critical point in his life. A tree cannot grow new leaves unless the dead leaves are gone first‚ and in the first stanza as the “gentle gardener” shakes the tree “with a strange passion‚”
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head of the speaker through their words and thoughts that are portrayed in the text. This offers us a glimpse at the character of the speaker without laying it all on the table. We draw inferences from the text in which we build an image of the speaker through their tone and characteristics. These inferences can be drawn from both poems‚ “Mother to Son” and “Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock”. However‚ “Mother to Son” varies from “Love song of Alfred Prufrock” in which the role of the speakers have very
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boy with his own father. While on this trip‚ the man often reminisces about how this camp has not changed a bit and that he often feels like he has gone back in time and is the boy he was when he first came‚ not the father he now is like when the speaker says “[…] or I would be saying something‚ and suddenly it would be not I but my father who was saying the words […]” (White 371). The purpose of this essay is that in life we all know we have to grow up at some time‚ but like the man in this piece
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the poem is just sort of mellow‚ as if it is nothing but an ordinary day. The speaker talks about the tattoo on the old man who’s at a yard sale on a chilly morning‚ contrasting his youth and his age to show the mark that the tattoo symbolized in his younger years. The poem shows a theme of how although things change‚ the past will always be a part of us; such as how a tattoo will stay with you forever. The speaker observed what the tattoo once meant and figuring what kind of person the man
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changing attitude of the speaker towards the fish. First‚ the fish is described as ancient and grizzled‚ showing signs of death and decay. However‚ upon closer inspection‚ the fish is made out to be a survivor of many battles. Through the use of figurative language‚ the poet shows the speaker’s shift from noting only the fish’s dejection to admiring him for his past glories. Bishop begins with the personification of the fish into a figure of defeat and age. The speaker mentions that the fish had
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dramatic monologue – a poem in which the impression the speaker unwittingly gives is rather different from the picture they intend to present. Initially‚ the poem appears to be built around a contrast between the storm outside and the cosy domestic scene within the cottage that Porphyria and her lover share. But there are unsettling notes from the very start –the storm is strangely personified in terms of sullenness‚ ‘spite’ and anger‚ and the speaker is for some reason so moved by it that his heart is
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stanza‚ the speaker directly addresses death to portray her dislike towards it. This is evident in the use of imperative tone in “Leave me alone.” The use of a caesura further emphasises the speaker’s strong dislike towards the changeable nature of death. The speaker pleads “Give me more time for time that was never long enough”‚ which reaffirms the unpredictability of death and also reflects the transience of time. An acceptance of death is expressed in the final stanza‚ in which the speaker truly understands
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