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... speech , looked at in this way , is that it is composed of five paragraphs of high - sounding but empty lan- guage . The unwary might jump to the conclusion that the speaker is a deep thinker , uttering immortal truths - but that is ...
... speech , looked at in this way , is that it is composed of five paragraphs of high - sounding but empty lan- guage . The unwary might jump to the conclusion that the speaker is a deep thinker , uttering immortal truths - but that is ...
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... speech , even after careful rereading , you have not missed anything . To borrow the old wisecrack , there is less here than meets the eye . The speech is , in fact , a blast of hot air . The speaker's only discernible point is that he ...
... speech , even after careful rereading , you have not missed anything . To borrow the old wisecrack , there is less here than meets the eye . The speech is , in fact , a blast of hot air . The speaker's only discernible point is that he ...
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... speech , looked at in this way , is that it is composed of five paragraphs of high - sounding but empty lan- guage . The unwary might jump to the conclusion that the speaker is a deep thinker , uttering immortal truths - but that is ...
... speech , looked at in this way , is that it is composed of five paragraphs of high - sounding but empty lan- guage . The unwary might jump to the conclusion that the speaker is a deep thinker , uttering immortal truths - but that is ...
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Denotation and Connotation | 1 |
Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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