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1、PresentingaspeechOfallhumancreations,languagemaybethemostremarkable.Throughlanguageweshareexperience,formulatevalues,exchangeideas,transmitknowledge,andsustainculture.Indeed,languageisvitaltothinkitself.[Contrarytopopularbelief],language
2、doesnotsimplymirro
3、rrealitybutalsohelpstocreateoursenseofreality[bygivingmeaningtoevents].Goodspeakershaverespectforlanguageandknowhowitworks.Wordsarethetoolsofaspeaker’scraft.Theyhavespecialuses,justlikethetoolsofanyotherprofession.Asaspeaker,youshouldbeawareofthemeaningofw
4、ordsandknowhowtouselanguageaccurately,clearly,vividly,andappropriately.Usinglanguageaccuratelyisasvitaltoaspeakerasusingnumbersaccuratelytoaaccountant.Neveruseawordunlessyouaresureofitsmeaning.Ifyouarenotsure,lookupthewordinthedictionary.Asyouprepareyoursp
5、eeches,askyourselfconstantly,“WhatdoIreallywanttosay?WhatdoIreallymean?”Choosewordsthatarepreciseandaccurate.Usinglanguageclearlyallowslistenerstograspyourmeaningimmediately.Youcanensurethisbyusingfamiliarwords（thatareknowntotheaveragepersonandrequirenospe
6、cializedbackground）;bychoosingconcretewordsinpreferencetomoreabstractones,andbyeliminatingverbalclutter.Usinglanguagevividlyhelpsbringyourspeechtolife.Oneway(tomakeyourspeechvivid)
7、isthroughimagery，orthecreationofwordpictures.Youcandevelopimagerybyusingcon
8、cretelanguage,simile,andmetaphor.Simileisanexplicitcomparisonbetweenthings（thatareessentiallydifferentyethavesomethingincommon）;italwayscontainsthewords“like”or“as”.Metaphorisanimplicitcomparisonbetweenthingsthataredifferentyethavesomethingincommon;itdoesn
9、otcontainthewords“like”or“as”.Anotherwaytomakeyourspeechesvividisbyexploitingtherhythmoflanguage.Fourdevicesforcreatingrhythmareparallelism,repetition,alliteration,andantithesis.Parallelismisthesimilararrangementofapairorseriesofrelatedwords,phrases,orsent
10、ences.Repetitionistheuseofthesamewordorsetofwordsatthebeginningorendofsuccessiveclausesorsentences.Alliterationcomesfromrepeatingtheinitialconstantsoundsofcloseoradjoiningwords.Antithesisisthejuxtapositionofc
