Phase 3 Individual Project Speech #1: Martin Luther King “ I’ve been to the Mountaintop” 1. How did the speaker gain the audience’s attention? The way he gain the audience attention by going straight to the issue that he wanted to talk about 2. Explain the topic and purpose of the speech. The topic was that he had a believed that one day America would change their ways and see everyone as equal but he could not do this alone. He needed the help of everyone in order for this to work
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Capote’s purpose of this passage was to create a simplistic version of the life in Holcomb, Kansas and to give a deeper insight on Herb’s personality and characteristics to the audience. Clearly, Herb is a generous and composed individual who can differentiate between what is right and wrong and take actions accordingly. As a responsible father, these traits will help raising his kids to be mature and hard working individuals with successful lives. Towards the middle of the passage, O’Brien utilizes
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performed speech. How to Present a Polished Speech The introduction is the first thing your audience will hear. Many presentations fail in the opening sentences. Take the time to plan your words in the introduction and make it influential. The primary goal of a speech introduction is presenting an idea and your intentions. Make the audience want to hear the rest of your speech. (Peterson, 2005, p. 1) Botch the introduction as well as other fine points of your presentation
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name I. Plan A. Analyze the Situation 1. What is your general purpose? To write a Negative and Bad New message. To convey the message to the audience in a way that will not have negative consequences for E227 Global Solutions in the future. It has to be in a way that the audience will have a better understanding for the message being conveyed 2. What is your specific purpose? To inform Maribel Rivera that we are going to be going with a different keynote speaker
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Current Event/Rhetorical Précis Assignment AP English Language – Ferguson An important part of your success on the AP test — and in your life beyond high school — will be a broad knowledge of what is going on in the world, the kinds of social and political debates being had, and the ways people involved in those arguments make their cases successfully, and unsuccessfully. One of the three essays you will write on the AP exam will require you to provide evidence for a given argument from your
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Well known author and writer, Jay Heinrich writes an informative and persuasive book, thank you for arguing to imply what Aristotle, Lincoln and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion. Heinrich’s purpose was to persuade readers on the different ways to argue using rhetoric and how to use the different argument tools such as ethos, logos and pathos to argue. Heinrich first began with a changed life when John Quincy Adams introduced him to rhetoric. After being introduced
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is meant to be fun no matter how demanding it is to the players and the fans throughout the season. Although Updike’s ultimate theme was positive and optimistic, he used a combination of a gloomy and elevating tone to get to his theme. He started off with his gloomy and remorseful tone talking about the previous season and the Red Sox’s late season blunder falling to the Yankees but then he moves onto the fans preparing for the next season and the eagerness that is behind the “Fenway Faithful”
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ENGLISH 12 TERMS AND DEVICES A active voice allegory alliteration allusion analogy antagonist anti-climax antithesis apostrophe argumentative essay anecdotal evidence archaic language aside assonance atmosphere audience autobiography B ballad ballad stanza bias biography blank verse C cacophony caricature case study catastrophe cause and effect character characterization character foil chorus chronological order cliché climactic order climax colloquialism colloquial language comedy comic relief
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To what extent is this true of the two texts you have studied? (Minimum any 2 scenes, 4 quotes and roughly 1200 words) It is the relationship between context, text and responder that helps the audience to create meaning from a text. Through Pacino recontextualising Shakespeare’s Richard III, the audience is able to develop a better understanding and newfound appreciation of Shakespeare’s text. By comparing the structure and language of both texts the responder is able to go on their own journey
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prove, it is more of an educational but random collection of corresponding stories. The authors purpose was to educate and explain the events that occurred in the final days of the bunker. It also gives some insight as to how Hitler went about his suicide, first testing cyanide on his dog, killing it, and then ultimately deciding to both take a cyanide capsule and shoot himself. The authors intended audience was anyone who wanted to learn about the bunker in which Hitler and his staff were stuck. The
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