1. What makes a good speaker? -A good speaker will speak clearly and loud enough so the audience can hear them. If you are speaking to someone individually you need to face them and not fidget or anything like that. To be a good speaker you also should be a good listener. It is all under the subject of communicating. 1.Stand erect distributing your weight on both the legs. Do not hold onto the mike or to the podium for support. 2.Have a good posture and appearance. Do not lean on the podium.
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think you already know what the speaker wants to say‚ before she actually finishes saying it. You might then impatiently cut her off or try to complete the sentence for her. Even more disruptive is interrupting her by saying that you disagree with her‚ but without letting her finish saying what it is that you think you disagree with. That’s a common problem when a discussion gets heated‚ and which causes the discussion to degrade quickly. By interrupting the speaker before letting her finish‚ you’re
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poem “I felt a Funeral‚ in my Brain‚” by Emily Dickinson the speaker seems to be having a mental breakdown‚ but as the reader we see it through imagery and metaphors the imagery is the funeral that the speaker is having inside their head‚ and in a way the speaker is also seems to be suffering because she cannot get a sense of reality. Dickinson use many metaphors in the poem to give insight of the state of what’s going on inside the speakers head. It seems almost as they where suffering because they
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we go along the poem. The manner in which the speaker initially views the filling station with disgust is clearly shown in the opening stanza of the poem. However‚ this changes as we go along the poem. The speaker becomes less judgmental and more objective. She initially finds only disorder in the filling station; however‚ as we go along the poem‚ she realizes that the order outweighs the disorder. Hence‚ I will show how the personality of the speaker changes as the poem progresses‚ and how his viewpoint
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active part: "Till rising and gliding out‚ I wander’d off by myself" (7)‚ " Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars " (9). In this part the speaker is no longer an objective observer but he is actively taking part in the poem. The speaker leaves the lecture and sees nature‚ the stars‚ with his own eyes "Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars" (9)‚ the speaker feels comfortable in the silence‚ alone rather than in the crowded and noisy lecture. The second quatrain shows the focus on nature in the
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Miguel J. Merriweather Phyllis Steward English 2003- World Literature I Diagnostic Essay August 29‚ 2011 The overall attitude I receive from the poem is that the speaker is having a moment to retrospect to the father. Reliving the times where the father would come home from a bar after a long day’s work to a child‚ staying up past normal bedtime anticipating his/her father’s return‚ eager to engage in good nature fun before both retired off to bed. The first stanza demonstrates the excitement
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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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In Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Facing It‚” the speaker encounters his grief at the Vietnam Memorial‚ undergoing confusing emotions from his experience of grief and loss at the war‚ but later realizes there is joy and harmony in living‚ appreciating the value of his own life [PrPP]. The first half of the poem demonstrates the speaker’s despair and confusion by visiting and reflecting on the wall from the memorial‚ the wall visually and physically representing the loss of his comrades. The poem opens with
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In this poem‚ the speaker emphasizes a clash between the enticing aroma of desire and the destruction that vain desire has brought down upon the speaker. He describes Desire’s “worthless woe” in an effort to help the reader get a sense for the intense feeling of contempt that the speaker has for Desire. The alliteration in this line helps to smooth out the delivery of the poem‚ creating a pattern that mirrors human speech. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABABBABABCCBCC‚ and the number of syllables
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In the poem the speaker is insisting that he and his comrades are being attacked and they know that they are not going to make it out alive. Since the speaker and his allies know that their demise is definite‚ they want to die fighting with honor and like men. Mckay uses a variety of literary forms when writing this poem. Three of his literary devices he used in “ If we must die” are theme‚ imagery and form. The themes of “ If We Must Die” is honor‚ nobility and bravery. The speaker knows that he and
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