Public Speaking Terms: Definitions and Concepts

Public Speaking Terms and Definitions

Public speech: A sustained formal presentation made by a speaker to an audience.

Audience: The specific group of people to whom the speech is directed.

Audience analysis: A study made to learn about the diverse characteristics of audience members and then, based on these characteristics, to predict how audience members are apt to listen to, understand, and be motivated.

Audience feedback: Nonverbal and verbal cues that indicate audience members’ reaction to what

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Vocabulary Expansion: Synonyms to Enhance Your English

1. A Great Deal – Plenty

2. Aggressive – Assertive

3. A Reward – Recompense

4. Adapted – Suitable

5. Appeal – Allure

6. Acquire – Get

7. Activist – Reformer

9. Adapter – Connector

10. Beyond – Apart From

11. Bargains – Good Value for Money

12. Been Grounded – Made to Stay In

13. Designed – Planned

14. Banners – A Long Strip of Cloth Bearing a Slogan

15. Based On – Developed On

16. Browse – Look Over

17. Chance – Possibility

18. Confident – Aplomb

19. Close – The Relationship With My Mother Is Closer Than With My

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Cézanne’s Card Players & Kandinsky’s Composition IV

Cézanne’s *The Card Players*

Classification

  • Title: The Card Players
  • Artist: Paul Cézanne
  • Timeline: 1890-1895
  • Versions: Five versions of the subject
  • School/Country: France
  • Style: Post-Impressionism

Subject

Figurative portrait of two men playing cards, seated at a table with a bottle of wine.

Description

  • Technique: Oil painting
  • Support: Canvas

Formal and Compositional Elements

  • Light: Artificial
  • Coloring: Chromatic contrasts are significant, enhancing the existing confrontation. The player with the pipe is depicted
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Understanding Cults: Characteristics, Differences, and Tactics

What is a Cult?

Defining a cult is complex for several reasons:

  • No new sect willingly adopts the name “cult.”
  • There is no universally agreed-upon definition among experts.
  • The term is often contentious.
  • It can be unfairly applied to religious minorities, creating prejudice.
  • Criticism should focus on a group’s practices, not its beliefs. It’s often mistakenly assumed that labeling a group a cult is an attack on its beliefs.

A useful definition is:

Cult: A group or movement exhibiting excessive devotion to

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Understanding Literary Genres: Lyric and Narrative Texts

Lyric Texts: Expression of Feelings

The lyric is appropriate for imitating moods and expressing feelings. Lyrical texts have the following characteristics:

  • They provide a very subjective discourse, the product of internalization, where poetic emotion is prevalent.
  • They do not develop a story; their content is an expression of feelings, emotions, and ideas.
  • A poetic voice belongs to the fiction and is not to be identified with the author.
  • They usually focus on one aspect and are generally short, which
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Journalistic Subgenres: News Reporting Essentials

Main Subgenus: Journalistic Genres

General Introduction

Messages are conveyed through various journalistic genres. Each genre represents a specific structure and mode of expression, shaped by tradition and now conventionally accepted. The features distinguishing these genres are linked to the two basic functions of journalistic media: informing about current events and providing opinions on them. Accordingly, we distinguish three subgenres: news, opinion, and hybrids.

The main subgenres of news reporting

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