Literary Non-Fiction: Speeches Rhetorical Devices: Repetition is the repeated use of the same word or phrase—usually for emphasis. Parallelism is the repetition of similar words, phrases, sentences, or grammatical structure. * Shows that ideas are related or equally important. * Helps to stress a phrase or idea. Aphorisms are expressions of an opinion or a general truth. Epigraphs are a quotation from the beginning of a book, chapter, or section of a book, used to emphasize a point
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PowerPoint. There were several points of an important nature that are useful in avoiding what he called a “PowerPoint slumber party.” Our staff members should give consideration to the following: Create first the message, not the slide. Only after preparing the entire script should you think about how to make an illustration of it. You should prepare slides with short lines. Your slides should have only four to six words per line. Short lines act as an encouragement to people to listen to you
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from the literary text. The second chapter is concerned with the semantic and stylistic analysis of the epithet. In the work the epithet is determined as a stylistic device based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning in a attributive word, phrase or even sentence used to characterize an object and pointing out to the reader. The epithet always has the emotional meaning or emotional color due to peculiarities of semantic structure of adjectives. For the purpose of study of linguistic nature
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“Paraphrase” is a verb which means to re-write a phrase or sentence with the same meaning but using different words. Paraphrasing is a very important skill for most English tests, including TOEFL iBT, IELTS and TOEIC Speaking and Writing. In TOEFL iBT, for instance, paraphrasing is an important skill in the reading section, in the listening section and, above all, in the speaking and writing sections of the test. Here is a quick example of paraphrasing using a phrase from the paragraph above: 1. "Paraphrasing
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The use of parallelism as a literary device revolves around the repetition of words and sentences as a primary method of generating rhythm and meter. The poem "Learning to Love America" includes an extensive use of parallelism with the primary effect of juxtaposing ideas with contrasting meaning as a means of showing their differences or relationship. In some cases, the parallelism is created through grammatical construct which highlights an element of simplicity in this poem in its attempt to convey
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communicate with each other is in ways other than the spoken word; body language, facial expressions,gestures, tone of voice and intonation and so on make up some of the non verbal ways of getting information across. In contrast to this during hypnosis the therapist has very few of the above techniques available; the client would usually have their eyes shut and so non verbal communications are not possible; it is solely about the voice, the words used and how they are used. It is because of this that
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so make sure to take a look at the information on that page to understand the full picture. Wilhelm Humboldt (1767 to 1835) Wilhelm Humboldt was the first European linguist to identify the human language as rule governed, rather than just words and phrases which have meaning. This notion highly influenced Noam Chomsky's work, who often quoted Humboldt's idea that language "makes infinite use of finite means", which means that any number of sentences can be created using a restricted number of rules
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SAMAR COLLEGE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION CATBALOGAN CITY _________________________________________________________________________ English Correct Usage, American vs. British English, Politically Correct Words, Confusing Words, Things to Remember When Using Numbers, Phrases, Clauses, Sentences, Punctuation Marks _________________________________________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for: ENGLISH 101 – STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH Presented by:
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companies are beginning to benefit from the textual data stored in data warehouses as well. Data Mining Data mining, which is also known as data discovery or knowledge discovery is the procedure that gathers, analyzes and places into perspective useful information. This facilitates the analysis of data from many different perspectives. Bill Palace a graduate student at UCLA offered this definition in his report in 1996 “Technically, data mining is the process of finding correlations or patterns
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* Adequate (enough) * Subsequent (I made a great tackle, but the subsequent injury meant I had to stop playing. * Prior * Prior to the 1900s, there was a major environmental problem. HOMEWORK CHOOSE 20 OF THE MOST USEFUL WORDS FROM ACADEMIC WORD LIST WRITE LONG SENTENCES OR PASSAGES EACH INCLUDING
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