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It makes the conversation more personable. The final three principles of this part include what happens in a conversation. A conversation will be exponentially better if you are an active listener and are encouraging the other person to talk. People like to talk about themselves and want to feel important. People will like you more if you are more engaging in the conversation and shape it around

Themes make up a story, and help add emotion and meaning to it. Because of themes, there are layers in a story that will make you more intrigued and make it seem that there is a purpose to the story. The Giver themes were influential to the story and served a large purpose in the outlook on it as well. One of the major themes that are found in The Giver is pain and pleasure, so you can’t have pain without knowing what pleasure is, and vice versa.

The director also need to get involved to prevent the participants to

He explains that sometimes to gain virtue in an audience 's eyes you may have to break some rules. The irony of this of course is that most people would tend to believe that breaking rules would make a person seem less virtuous. To argue using this strategy one must first figure out where the values of the crowd lie and often bend your own mindset to win the debate. In chapter seven he also emphasizes “showing off your experience” (73) and “appearing to take the middle course” (73) This means appear to take a less extreme point of view than your opponent in order to seem less aggressive and more likeable.

The reason on why one should not want language to “always wear a tie and lace-up shoes” is because you want the reader to feel comfortable and forget that they are even reading. In addition, by breaking grammar rules, the author can enrich the experience of the story by enhancing the narration, improving the imagery, and bettering the dialogue. The time you do not want to write language in a “tie and lace-up shoes” style is when you are trying to tell a story and trying to engage the audience about a

Both Antony and Brutus paced their speeches differently which changed the timing of the speech and made it harder to interject with Brutus and easier to interject with Antony. The opportunity to interrupt the speaker during the speech gives the listeners the ability to change the direction of the speech and that definitely happened during Antony’s speech. He used restraint to get the crowd to pay attention and it worked. He changed his tone and changed the mood of the speech which kept the crowd interested and gave them something to follow. The crowd begged to hear Caesar 's will, when Antony announced that he had it.

The opening and closing narration are particularly obvious on this occasion, telling the viewer exactly what the themes are and what they have seen, respectively. Overall, the State is written as, for lack of a better term, blatantly evil, so the message that ‘we should be careful lest this happen to us’ is muddied. There is little room left for viewer opinions or to mull over what they’ve seen. It reads more like a series of scare tactics than a recreation of what could happen. “The Obsolete Man” is steeped in the ideas and morals of its time, which can make it unapproachable in a number of ways.

By repeating a gesture over and over again the audience can get distracted and stop focusing on your message. Also, repetition of a certain gesture can come off as aggressive or forceful, counteracting your objective. Try to look at the lesson about gestures and body language again (page 4). Jean often uses this gesture.

Another way how I improved on speaking publicly is simply telling the story instead of annunciating it. When

Another aspect of this type of “hearing” is actually hearing the other person’s words but insisting that you know what he/she really means/didn’t mean. • Proving your point: This is similar to mind reading, it involves selective listening which is choosing to hear the words that prove the point in your mind while ignoring the rest. • Blocking:

If you conflate the ability to say what you want, how you want, with an immunity from criticism or consequence of the speech, you are likely to be surprised. If you are not aware of, or refuse to seriously consider, that many people who might in times past have not publicly objected to your speech now feel free to do so and in no uncertain terms, you may become unhappy. If you choose not to treat those responses and criticisms seriously, your reputation may ultimately suffer. Your reputation today is highly depending on what you do now, not what you’ve done in the past. People always say “the past is in the past” so believe it.

On April 10, 1962, the United States’ largest steel companies raised their prices by 3.5 percent. The people of the nation were unhappy and had wondered why this change had occurred. I compare this to when gas prices go up; no one is happy when gas prices raise. Some figure that we already spend enough. Kennedy uses a number of rhetorical devices in his speech which help to justice the reasons behind the raised prices.

In the speech “Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln uses repetition to make an emotional appeal to the audience. He underscore to the people to maintain the nation in freedom and to preserve the soldiers who died at the war to fought for independence. For instance, Lincoln said, “We are met on a great battle-field of that war.” and “...we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow--this ground.” In his speech he repeated the words “we” and “we can not” multiple times.

Reading Gilgamesh was important because it gives the reader insight and an understanding of what was important to the people who lived during the time that Gilgamesh was written. It also allows us to see how things have changed from what we are used to reading to what we could have been reading before. Repetition in a story can sometimes seem a little annoying to the reader. However, I think it could be a very important characteristic when reading certain material.

Option B uses figurative language to describe the image shown above. The example I have identified, option B, is figurative language because it uses a device called a metaphor. A metaphor is a comparison of two different things that show how they are the same. Option B uses a metaphor because it compares a group of protesters to a swarm of bees demanding attention instead of a fly that could be ignored.