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Rhetorical Analysis of Lincoln and Kennedy Speeches Political speeches have produced some of the most organized, articulated, and aesthetic language throughout history. In their first and second inaugural addresses respectively, John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln presented to the country a beautiful collection of lines, many of them still remembered to this day. These artfully written speeches were not written in such style on accident, as the mastery of syntax, diction, and trope are used to…

takes up 4.48% of total token amount. The “Off-List” consists of 9 types, accounting for 53 tokens. Among them, 6 types are proper nouns (Kenny, Archer, Robert, Amazon, rainforest and weekend). “Kenny”, “Archer”, “Robert” and “Amazon” are names, occurring 5,13,15 and 1 times respectively. The six words account for 3.57% tokens. Many researchers believe that proper nouns have a minimal learning burden and may be easily understood by readers (Webb & Nation, 2008). So, certain proportion of tokens…

In this memo I am required to analyze prior writing and to explain my prose style problems. Should review it by achieving the purpose requirement. I chose one of the longer essays that I have written about “School uniform and violence”. By applying the concepts to support audience and purpose. I will split the memo in four main segments and explaining each. How to be concise, be precise, be direct, and stress emphasis. Be concise: To be concise is to write only the words that meet your…

People everyday experience confusion as to the meaning of a sentence based upon incorrect comma placement. There was actually a legal case in Maine over the misuse of commas, particularly the Oxford comma (Sullivan). The Oxford comma is the labeled “optional” comma after the last item in a list and before the word “and”. Some people believe that the Oxford comma is unnecessary, but that is simply incorrect. The usage of this particular punctuation is considered optional by many, but given the…

I chose the following five assignments because I thought they showed my growth the best. At the beginning of the course, writing quickwrites in less than five minutes was a bit challenging. As time went by, I was able to write a seven sentence paragraph with supporting examples, within those five minutes. Annotating a text was always something I enjoyed doing because I love to read. I did, of course, improve my annotating by writing down more of my thoughts and by analyzing the writer’s use of…

REVELATIONS (2) 1. One event that I find to be important is when Gatsby avoids getting a ticket by the police by showing them a card from the police commissioner. This event gives us a better understanding of Gatsby’s character and power. He is evading the law by using his connections to a person in power, which shows that he is not afraid to use his power to break the law. It also shows how much power Gatsby truly has. Since he is able to avoid being punished for breaking the law, he is able…

Introduction Suprasegmental, also called Prosodic Feature, in phonetics, a speech feature such as stress, tone, or word juncture that accompanies or is added over consonants and vowels; these features are not limited to single sounds but often extend over syllables, words, or phrases. They are features over above the segmental values such as place or manner of articulation, thus the supra- in segmental.The term prosodic comes from poetry, where it refers to the metrical structure of verse. One…

The individual that I chose for my interview is a 37 year old male who was born and raised in Germany, but presently resides in northern Indiana. He relocated to the United States for work-related reasons. His name is Michael Drue and he is, at this time, married to my first cousin Krisha, a native English speaker, having been born in the United States. I chose Michael as the person of interest for my intercultural interview not only because he is speaks English as a second language, but also…

The objects that you bring along with you or know about can decide whether or not you will be able to escape or be captured. While reading Runner by Patrick Lee there are some very important objects that Rachael and Dryden will need to use to outrun from a heavily gunned and a highly skillful group of people. The three most important items that Rachael and Dryden can bring and use to survive is the medicine, the truck that they borrowed, and the cabin that they were cooped up in. The medicine…

There are an explicit use of concrete nouns like, “house”, “walls”, “chairs” and “curtains” in the excerpt. These concrete nouns allow readers to judge Mathilde as it depicts the materialistic character of her. Although she has a comfortable house and a caring husband, she is clearly unsatisfied with it and her desire for wealth is…