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Notes on conversation, communication, public speaking - and life in general.

Showing posts with label Contrast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contrast. Show all posts

An example of rhetorical virtuosity from rhetoric denier Tony Benn

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Readers from outside the UK have probably never heard of Tony Benn, and quite a few here will be too young to remember just how effective an...

David Cameron's attack on the Budget used some well-crafted rhetoric

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Having used the neat alliterative phrase ‘decade of debt’ early in his reply to Mr Darling’s Budget speech on Wednesday, David Cameron retur...
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‘From Stalin to Mr Bean’: putting two parts of a contrast in the most effective order

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In case anyone thinks that the last posting was intended as a criticism of Vince Cable’s rhetorical skill, I haven't forgotten that his ...

How to improve impact by sequence, repetition and a rhetorical technique

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In Vince Cable’s speech at the spring conference of the Liberal Democrats in Harrogate a couple of days ago, there was a sequence that would...
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