elocution

  • 91parole — [ parɔl ] n. f. • 1080; lat. pop. °paraula, lat. ecclés. parabola « comparaison » (→ 1. parabole) I ♦ UNE, DES PAROLES : élément(s) de langage parlé (⇒ langage) . 1 ♦ Élément simple du langage articulé. ⇒ mot; expression. Vx Mot. « Ce n est pas… …

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  • 92traînant — traînant, ante [ trɛnɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] adj. • XIIe; de traîner 1 ♦ Qui traîne par terre, qui pend. « Des couvertures traînantes et souillées » (Baudelaire). 2 ♦ (1580) Monotone et lent, qui traîne, en parlant de sons. Voix traînante. « une musique lourde …

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  • 93rhetoric — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. oratory, eloquence, elocution, declamation, floridity. See speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Speech] Syn. composition, discourse, oratory, oration; see eloquence 1 , speech 3 . 2. [Grandiloquence] Syn.… …

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  • 94speech — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Oral communication Nouns 1. speech, talk, faculty of speech; locution, parlance, expression, vernacular, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion, discourse; soliloquy;… …

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  • 95Elocutionist — El o*cu tion*ist, n. One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 96declaim — verb Etymology: Middle English declamen, from Latin declamare, from de + clamare to cry out; akin to Latin calare to call more at low Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to speak rhetorically; specifically to recite something as an …

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  • 97ELME (SAINT-) — n. f. Manière dont on s’exprime. élocution nette, facile, élégante. Une élocution embarrassée. En termes de Rhétorique, il désigne Celle des trois parties de la rhétorique qui a pour objet le choix et l’arrangement des mots …

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  • 98Ulalume — is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe s other poems (such as The Raven , Annabel Lee , and Lenore ), Ulalume focuses on the narrator s loss of a beautiful woman due to her untimely death. Poe originally wrote the… …

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  • 99Naparima College — A Posse Ad Esse ( From Possibility To Actuality ) Location Paradise Hill San Fernando …

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  • 100Elocutio — is the term for the mastery of stylistic elements in Western classical rhetoric and comes from the Latin loqui , to speak . Although today we associate the word elocution more with eloquent speaking, for the classical rhetorician it connoted… …

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