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Module B: Speeches Flashcards

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Questioning

MA

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Rhetorical questions

“What is a novel anyway?”

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Margaret Thatcher

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Conversational language through inclusive, colloquial language

“… and there you have it”

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Dolls

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Anecdotes

“When my daughter was five…”

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Jesus

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Accumulation of rhetorical questions

“First they exist in real life, so why shouldn’t they exist in real life?”

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Turning

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Accumulation of rhetorical questions

“… why shouldn’t their many-dimensionality be given literary expression?”

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Cruella deville

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Intertextuality, invocation and inclusive language

“Ladies of Great Britain… We have not enough evil in us”

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Ghandi

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Inclusive language and diction

“Universal benefits” and “peace dividend”

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Crowing

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Burmese Proverb

“The dawn rises only when the rooster crows”

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Upside down

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Emotive language and paradox

“This great celebration of the struggle of women”

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Barack Obama

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Inclusive language

“… the common hopes which firmly unite us in all our splendid diversity”

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Educating

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High modality and alliteration

“The education and empowerment of women cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant just and peaceful life for all”

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Christians

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Religious Allusion

“World’s great religious are dedicated to the generation of happiness and harmony”

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Keinyn

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Anaphora - “we do not know”

High modality inclusive pronouns - “we never will”

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Proclaiming

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Anaphora and antithesis

“It is a legend” to the “Anzac story”

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Religion

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Peroration, lexical chain

“Enshrine… faith”

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General Petraeus

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Antithesis

“What we have lost in war and what we have gained”

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Including

PK

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Egalitarian gesture and dramatic pause

“He is all of them. And he is one of us.”

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Victory

PK

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Alliteration and sibilance

“Victory was scarcely discernible from defeat”

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Peacekeepers

As

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Leit-motif

“Durable peace based on justice”

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Killing

AS

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Emotive language

“The plight of bloodshed, death, orphans”

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Fences

As

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Laconic sentence structure

“A barrier of suspicion. A barrier of rejection”

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Gaddafi

As

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Emotive aphorism

“Any life lost in war is a human life…. Israeli or Arab”

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Praying AS

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Unification and inclusive diction

“In the name of god” “us”

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God

As

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Biblical exemplum and accumulation

“Muslims, Christians and Jews worship god”

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Tony Abbott

NP

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Sarcasm mocking tone
“Myth”
“The invisibility of Aboriginal people”

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Overtaking

Np

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Rhetorical question

“But has the so-called black armband view of history been about opportunity guilt?”

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History

Np

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Polysyndeton

“I am concerned with the spirit of historical reckoning and acceptance and compromise and reconciliation”

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Naomi

NP

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Historical allusions

“It would be inappropriate for us to say to Jewish people today, ‘the treatment of your people has been terrible’ perhaps we should not be so consumed by it”

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Including

Np

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Inclusive language

“Our nation” “we” “collective consciousness”

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Bipolar

NP

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Emotive language and juxtaposition

“What unites us” “what separates us”

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Everyone

Wd

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Inclusive language
“We are all gathered”
“We are all involved”
“The prayers of all of us”

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Dying

Wd

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Cumulation

“They died so far away from the homes, the families, the friends of the land they loved so well”

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With guns

Wd

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War time references
“Single greatest peacetime loss”
“Deeply affects our nation as a whole and all of its people”

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Tom platt

Wd

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Euphemisms

‘Cut short’ and ‘tragedy’

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Worshiping

Wd

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Religious allusions
‘In the words of our lord’
‘May they all rest with god’

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Literature

WD

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Literary allusions to John Donne’s ‘No Man is an Island’

‘Anyones death diminishes us as we are all involved in mankind”

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