Meanings of Words & Using Language Accurately
Using Language Clearly
Use language Vividly
Introduction/
Presentation
Commemorative and Acceptance Speeches
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What is a book of synonyms?
What is a thesaurus?
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What are words that refer to ideas or concepts?
What are abstract words?
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What is a trite or overused expression?
What is a cliche?
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What is a speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience?
What is speech of introduction?
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What is a speech that gives thanks for a gift, an award, or some other forum of public recognition?
What is an acceptance speech?
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What is the meaning suggested by the associations or emotions triggered by a word or phrase?
What is connotative meaning?
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What are words that refer to tangible objects?
What are concrete words?
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What is reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or the end of successive clauses or sentences?
What is repetition?
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What is a speech that presents someone a gift, an award, or some other form of public recognition?
What is speech of presentation?
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What is a speech that pays tribute to a person, a group of people, an institution, or an idea?
What is commemorative speech?
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What is the literal dictionary meaning of a word or phrase?
What is denotative meaning?
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What is discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea?
What is clutter?
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What is the similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words, phrases, or sentences?
What is parallelism?
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Saving the speaker's name for last is an example of what...during an introduction speech?
What is creating anticipation and drama?
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When giving this kind of speech, your success will depend on your ability to put into language the thoughts and emotions appropriate to the occasion?
What is a commemorative speech?
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These kinds of meanings give words their intensity and emotional power.
What is connotative meaning?
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This kind of plain talk is what listeners want.
What is using familiar words?
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What is an explicit comparison introduced with the word "like" or "as", between two things that are essentially different, yet have something in common?
What is a simile?
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What is one of the six guidelines to speech of introduction?
What is be brief? What is accurate remarks? What is adapting your remarks to the occasion? What is adapting your remarks to the speaker? What is adapting your remarks to the audience? What is creating a sense of anticipation/drama?
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Martin Luther King receiving the Noble Piece Prize award is an example of?
What is an acceptance speech?
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