The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

this is a `` fade '' ending, and what you have here is a downtalking style of speech, expressing something less than conventional respect for mother.

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

Aldington, a veteran of World War I, claimed that his novel was accurate in terms of speech and style.

" His distinctive vernacular style is known as " Runyonese ": a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions.

Viewed as an aspect of speech and writing, metaphor qualifies as style, in particular, style characterized by a type of analogy.

An expression ( word, phrase ) that by implication suggests the likeness of one entity to another entity gives style to an item of speech or writing, whether the entities consist of objects, events, ideas, activities, attributes, or almost anything expressible in language.

Traditional opera, often referred to as " number opera ", consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the plot-driving passages sung in a style designed to imitate and emphasize the inflections of speech, and aria ( an " air " or formal song ) in which the characters express their emotions in a more structured melodic style.

This colloquial style is the everyday speech that Plautus would have been familiar with, yet that means that most students of Latin are unfamiliar with it.

The Latin style was heavily influenced by Cicero, and involved a strong emphasis on a broad education in all areas of humanistic study ( in the liberal arts, including philosophy ), as well as on the use of wit and humor, on appeal to the listener's emotions, and on digressions ( often used to explore general themes related to the specific topic of the speech ).

With the rise of the scientific method and the emphasis on a " plain " style of speaking and writing, even formal oratory has become less polished and ornate than in the Classical period, though politicians today can still make or break their careers on the basis of a successful ( or unsuccessful ) speech.

The five canons of rhetoric, which trace the traditional tasks in designing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical Rome, invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.

* Once the speech content is known and the structure is determined, the next steps involve elocutio ( style ) and pronuntiatio ( presentation ).

Sharply contrarian on many subjects, Hobbes, like Bacon, also promoted a simpler and more natural style that used figures of speech sparingly.

It is considered particularly ironic that Atatürk himself, in his lengthy speech to the new Parliament in 1927, used a style of Ottoman which sounded so alien to later listeners that it had to be " translated " three times into modern Turkish: first in 1963, again in 1986, and most recently in 1995.

This is where the style of which the courtier writes encourages the persuasiveness or successfulness of a speech.

Pistol talks in a bombastic blank verse that seems to parody Henry's own style of speech.

Rabkin argues that the play never settles on one viewpoint towards warfare, Henry himself switching his style of speech constantly, talking of " rape and pillage " during Harfleur but of patriotic glory in his St. Crispin's Day speech.

An additional problem is that in languages without living speech communities, such as Latin, Hellenic Greek, and Old Church Slavonic, linguists have only written evidence, perhaps written in a poetic, formalizing, or archaic style that mischaracterizes the actual daily use of the language.

Florentines were put off by his foreign-sounding Ferrarese speech, his strident voice and ( especially to those who valued humanist rhetoric ) his inelegant style.

This, coupled with the literal translation style of the texts, which imitate the tone and cadences of Li's colloquial Chinese speech, can make Falun Gong scriptures difficult to approach for Westerners.

This style also places periods and commas inside the quotation marks when dealing with direct speech, regardless of whether the work is fiction or non-fiction:

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

No doubt, there was still a lot in the Draft Program -- and in Khrushchev's speech -- which left many points obscure.

Her speech was barren of southernisms ; ;

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

The conduct in question was a speech.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

After the preliminary business affair was finished Depew arose and delivered the convincing speech that clinched the nomination for Roosevelt.

Her little speech was totally out of character with the sort of person I thought she was.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

She meant him well, but was in no condition for articulate speech.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

This was not a standard in a modern technical sense – it was the social standard of " upper class " speech.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

Her speech was reported by the London Times as follows.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

Tone languages use for linguistic contrasts speech parameters which also function heavily in nonlinguistic use.

Badly placed teeth can also cause such a speech handicap as lisping.

Interestingly, the geographic borderlines between the different accents ( isoglosses ) coincide strongly with the borders of the states and also with the border with Bavaria, with Bavarians having a markedly different rhythm of speech in spite of the similarities in the language.

Dysarthria, an impairment with articulation, may also be present and is characterized by " scanning " speech that consists of slower rate, irregular rhythm and variable volume.

There may also be slurring of speech, tremor of the voice and ataxic respiration.

" He also worked as a logographer, having written the speech prosecuting Phryne according to Diodorus Periegetes ( quoted by Athenaeus XIII. 591e ).

The Letter of Philip ( speech 12 ) to which speech 11 seems to respond may also be by Anaximenes, or it may be an authentic letter by Philip, perhaps written with the aid of his advisers.

During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

With narration of direct speech, both styles retain punctuation inside the quotation marks, with a full stop changing into a comma if followed by explanatory text, also known as a dialogue tag.

* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

There are also anthroposophical movements to renew speech and drama, the most important of which are based in the work of Marie Steiner-von Sivers ( speech formation, also known as Creative Speech ) and the Chekhov Method originated by Michael Chekhov ( nephew of Anton Chekhov ).

God's speech also emphasizes his sovereignty in creating and maintaining the world.

It may allude to a literal custom of breaking a moneychanger's bench or counter to signify his insolvency, but it may also be only a figure of speech.

Though he received only average grades, he also competed in high school speech tournaments regionally.

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

The speech was also seen as a stand against the Soviet Union because it stated the firm intention of the United States to maintain a military presence in Europe indefinitely.

The Lyon Tablet preserves his speech on the admittance of Gallic senators, in which he addresses the Senate with reverence but also with criticism for their disdain of these men.

Cyber Patrol, a product developed by The Anti-Defamation League and Mattel's The Learning Company, has been found to block not only political sites it deems to be engaging in ' hate speech ' but also human rights web sites, such as Amnesty International's web page about Israel and gay-rights web sites, such as glaad. org.