the novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and is therefore in the written domain. Its purpose is to entertain as it belongs in the genre of literary fiction and has a public yet educated audience to the use of low frequency lexis. Text has an overall negative attitude, not necessarily towards the consumption of alcohol but the after effects of excessive drinking of it. Text B in contrast is part of a speech by the politician Tony Blair and is therefore in the spoken domain. Its purpose is to inform the
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of rhetoric who fundamentally emphasized style and the power of speech. As well as the Platonic who define and emphasize rhetoric as speech based on knowledge and truth. Two of the most well known Sophist theories are Gorgias and Isocrates, Gorgias the orator as performer and Isocrates the orator as citizen. In a tribute to Rosa Parks, the philanthropist Oprah Winfrey strongly respected the Rosa by delivering a well mannered speech, with powerful compassionate words, which characterize her sophistic
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then sends that to the chip in his head, which then allows him to hear the distinct sound of that particular color. The general purpose of this speech was to entertain, to persuade and to inform, which is why I would give the body of his speech a 10. When creating a speech that everyone can identify with and understand regardless of the type of auditory speech they learn best from, is
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Importance of art in the life of people Introduction Art is a vehicle with expression and communication of emotions and ideas in conjunction. The types of art are: fine art, performing art and others. Fine art is a kind of visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged by its beauty and meaningfulness, especially painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolour, graphic and architecture. Conversely, performing art uses the artist’s body, face, and presence as
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Television Studies ------------------------------------------------- Professor Eduardo Cintra Torres 1ªAula, dia 22 de Setembro de 2015 Programme: 1. Introduction to Television Studies; 2. Television text (contents); 3. Television agency; 4. Television and technology; 5. Television history; 6. Viewer, audiences: I, We, They. Why study television? People wrote about television as a general media. There was a certain resistance to the study of TV. To study popular
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The Influences of English on Chinese We drink kekoukele. we surf the yintewang. We wear Txushan. We watch DVD. Unconsciously, the Chinese we speak today is not that authentic and orthodox anymore. Everywhere in our life, we can see the vague shadow of English. As the air permeates every corner of the space, English permeates our language, our culture and our mind silently. After doing some extensive research, today I want to show you the influences of English on Chinese from 2 aspects:
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Entertaining Speech An entertaining speech is one whose sole purpose is to have the audience enjoy the presentation. The purpose of an entertaining speech is not to educate, inform or inspire … it is to make the audience smile, relax, enjoy and maybe even laugh their heads off. How do you make a speech entertaining? There are many ways to entertain an audience. You can: * tell jokes * tell funny stories * dramatize an anecdote * tell a scary story When it comes right down to
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• What problems were observed? • What arguments were observed? • What evidence, examples, illustrations were most helpful? Thesis Statement • Overall topic • General goal (inform, persuade, entertain?) • Specific goal (what do they need to know from it) • The overall claim of your speech from audience POV o One sentence o “You, Us” • Asserted as a claim • All main points work within the scope of this statement Main Points Relate to Thesis • Each main point develops thesis
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Audience Analysis Whenever giving a presentation, it is important to communicate properly with an audience. In order for a presentation to be affective, the speaker must know who they are presenting to in order to inform, persuade, or entertain them. In order to be successful in getting your message across it benefits the speaker to have information about their guest such as their interest, likes and dislikes. In order to keep the audience interested, we never want to go into a situation unaware
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buckled -- to collapse, fall apart) Colloquial Language - Colloquial language is informal language that is not rude, but would not be used in formal situations. A colloquialism is an informal expression, that is, an expression not used in formal speech or writing. Euphemism - A euphemism is when you substitute language that is less direct and vague for another that is considered to be harsh, blunt, or offensive. - Rather than say that somebody has died, we might say that they 'have passed away'
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