While the Poetry Fest is a great vehicle for performance, there must be another outlet for the self-expression of sharing our own writing to a class. In the heat of reading textbooks and writing papers, very little time is afforded to composing our own work and reciting it to an audience. Though we do have the Poetry Fest every year, the school curriculum lacks the dynamism to flirt with the spontaneity associated with public speaking.
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And here at school, we should be teaching this skill much more, for it will undoubtedly help us in every aspect of our future professional and personal lives. Therefore, public speaking is as much a trainable skill as it is an art in expression.
It comes down to how many minutes you spent reciting the speech sitting at your desk, how many times you stood in front of the mirror and performed to yourself, and how many times you corrected a fumble in a word or sentence that you finally pronounced correctly. As you take a deep breath and look out on those gathered, the only thing standing between success and failure is your preparation. The hands start to shake, the knee bounces up and down as if thumping to the beat of a marching band in the distance. It is a battle against the butterflies in the stomach and the self-doubt circling the brain. Public speaking is an art not only in rhetoric but in courage and confidence. Hollywood refers to the American film industry.“His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy…” – Eminem Cullen uses ‘flesh’ to represent humans, and questions God why we have to die when we are created in His likeness.ģ. Thus, ‘oat’ represents the song that the poet is composing beside the ocean.Ģ. John Milton uses ‘oat’ for a musical instrument made out of an oat stalk. “I thought Hollywood has stopped making many musicals now.”ġ. Why flesh that mirror Him must someday die…” - Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullenģ. “But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea…” - Lycidas by John MiltonĢ. For instance, “Rifles were guarding the gate” is more evocative than “The guards with rifles in their hands were guarding the gate”.Įxplain the metonym used in these examples:ġ. Moreover, the use of metonymy helps the cause of conciseness. Metonymy is used to create symbolism and give deeper meaning to otherwise common ideas and objects to attract the reader’s/listener’s attention. Thus, it allows complicated ideas to be expressed briefly. It is a metonymy very common in the modern world, where the name of a country or state refers to the whole nation and its government.
Scarlett uses Georgia to indicate everything that composes the state: its citizens, politicians, and the government. In Margaret Mitchell’s all-time best-seller Gone with the Wind, the heroine Scarlett O’Hara says: “I’m mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it secedes or it would have ruined the Christmas parties”. The phrase ‘the life from spilling’ refers to the spilling of blood, i.e, the loss of too much blood is akin to loss of life. “As he swung toward them holding up the hand The ‘ears’ are Shakespeare’s metonymy for listeners paying attention.Īmerican poet Robert Frost’s poem Out, Out also has a fine example of metonymy: In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony famously says, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears”. For instance ‘heart’ is often used to mean love and ‘grave’ could mean death. Literature abounds in interesting examples of metonymy. For example, ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’, the pen refers to written words and sword to military force. There are many idioms which use metonymy. In everyday parlance, people often say, ‘Let me give you a hand’. Similarly when we read that ‘The Oval Office is busy’, it means the people (including the US president) who work in the Oval Office are busy. For example in the sentence ‘The White House is concerned about terrorism’, the White House represents the people who work in it and especially the President of the United States. There are many examples of metonymy in literature and everyday life. It originates from the Greek word metonymia which means change of name (meta meaning ‘among’ and onyma ‘name’). The use of metonymy dates back to ancient Greece. This is an example of metonymy - a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by something closely associated with it. In the UK media, the British monarch is popularly referred to as The Crown.
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