SPEECH : A formal address or discourse delivered to an audience.
In the past, only a small number of people could write, but almost everybody could speak. There were many different ways people spoke, with different vocabularies and dialects in different parts of the world. However, today, almost everybody can speak and write. Writing has an important influence on speaking. But speaking has a bigger influence writing. For example, most new words enter a language through speaking. Some do not live long. But if you begin to see these words in writing it usually means that they have become or becoming "real words" in the language and spoken words are retained more. Although, most of the words you read barely register in your brain, and most …show more content…
The author Thomas Jefferson use of rhetorical features such as parallelism, syntax, tone and repetition which helped to impact the readers, in ways other works of writing can’t. His writing style was very persuasive in convincing about 2.5 million people in 13 different colonies to secede from the rule of Great Britain. However, if his writing was spoken, those who wasn 't convinced to break away from the rule of the British they might have been more open to the idea. Yet Declaration is still a written document and not a speech and can be interpreted in any way the reader wants it to be, such as President Abraham Lincoln did. Lincoln interpreted the Declaration in his own way and understanding it to give every human their birth given rights. This brought about the Emancipation Proclamation, the document setting the slave free. Abraham Lincoln took this statement from the Declaration, “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” But not all may interpret the Declaration of Independence so positively. Others might see this document as the colonist being defiant and complainers. Given that fact that they are not the only ones under the rule of the King.Therefore, if the Declaration of Independence was spoke a clear message of …show more content…
Knowing to how to speak the language and other forms of expression such as body language, eye contact the tone of their voice, etc. to get their claim made clear to those they were communicating with. Moreover speeches got the point across more than any hand written document because using your voice and actually visualize the person speaking you don 't have to interpret the position. So to help the reader “paint a picture” in their mind with your words.The writer might use nouns and action verbs because they are easier for the reader’s brain to visualize. Words like “ocean” or “tag” are easy to visualize, but words like “freedom” or “trust” makes the brain think harder to understand those concepts. Instead, our lazy brain, skipping over as many words as possible, especially the abstract ones when we read, deeper levels of meaning and feeling is lost. Therefore to fully understand the magnificent piece of work the Declaration of Independence is, it must be in form of a
In the past, only a small number of people could write, but almost everybody could speak. There were many different ways people spoke, with different vocabularies and dialects in different parts of the world. However, today, almost everybody can speak and write. Writing has an important influence on speaking. But speaking has a bigger influence writing. For example, most new words enter a language through speaking. Some do not live long. But if you begin to see these words in writing it usually means that they have become or becoming "real words" in the language and spoken words are retained more. Although, most of the words you read barely register in your brain, and most …show more content…
The author Thomas Jefferson use of rhetorical features such as parallelism, syntax, tone and repetition which helped to impact the readers, in ways other works of writing can’t. His writing style was very persuasive in convincing about 2.5 million people in 13 different colonies to secede from the rule of Great Britain. However, if his writing was spoken, those who wasn 't convinced to break away from the rule of the British they might have been more open to the idea. Yet Declaration is still a written document and not a speech and can be interpreted in any way the reader wants it to be, such as President Abraham Lincoln did. Lincoln interpreted the Declaration in his own way and understanding it to give every human their birth given rights. This brought about the Emancipation Proclamation, the document setting the slave free. Abraham Lincoln took this statement from the Declaration, “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” But not all may interpret the Declaration of Independence so positively. Others might see this document as the colonist being defiant and complainers. Given that fact that they are not the only ones under the rule of the King.Therefore, if the Declaration of Independence was spoke a clear message of …show more content…
Knowing to how to speak the language and other forms of expression such as body language, eye contact the tone of their voice, etc. to get their claim made clear to those they were communicating with. Moreover speeches got the point across more than any hand written document because using your voice and actually visualize the person speaking you don 't have to interpret the position. So to help the reader “paint a picture” in their mind with your words.The writer might use nouns and action verbs because they are easier for the reader’s brain to visualize. Words like “ocean” or “tag” are easy to visualize, but words like “freedom” or “trust” makes the brain think harder to understand those concepts. Instead, our lazy brain, skipping over as many words as possible, especially the abstract ones when we read, deeper levels of meaning and feeling is lost. Therefore to fully understand the magnificent piece of work the Declaration of Independence is, it must be in form of a