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  2. Lecture - Wikipedia

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    Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories, and equations. A politician's speech, a minister's sermon, or even a business person's sales presentation may be similar in form to a lecture. Usually the lecturer will stand at the front of the room and recite information relevant to the lecture's content.

  3. Presentation - Wikipedia

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    Presentations are typically demonstrations, introduction, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, inspire, motivate, build goodwill, or present a new idea/product. [1] Presentations usually require preparation, organization, event planning, writing, use of visual aids, dealing with stress, and answering questions. [2] "The key elements of ...

  4. Template:Glossary/doc - Wikipedia

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    The template {} (a.k.a. {{glossary start}} or {{glossary begin}}) is used with {{glossary end}} to explicitly bracket a glossary or glossary-like description list (also called a definition list or association list), especially in a template-structured glossary, although such lists can be used more generally.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Glossaries

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    Every article on Wikipedia with a title in the form "Glossary of subject terms", or similar, is such a glossary, as are the glossary sections inside some articles. These are distinct from outlines, which are titled in the form "Outline of subject" and may also include definitions, but are organized as a hierarchy and use their own style of formatting not covered in this guideline.

  6. Eloquence - Wikipedia

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    Eloquence (from French eloquence from Latin eloquentia) is fluent, elegant, persuasive, and forceful speech, persuading an audience. Eloquence is both a natural talent and improved by knowledge of language, study of a specific subject to be addressed, philosophy, rationale and ability to form a persuasive set of tenets within a presentation.

  7. Speech codes theory - Wikipedia

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    A speech code can also be defined as "a historically enacted socially constructed system of terms, meanings, premises, and rules, pertaining to communicative conduct." [ 1 ] "This theory seeks to answer questions about the existence of speech codes, their substance, the way they can be discovered, and their force upon people within a culture ...

  8. Template:Defn/doc - Wikipedia

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    The template {} is used in template-structured glossaries to create definitions of terms. It is a wrapper for <dd>...</dd> , the description list definition HTML element . The template has a mnemonic redirect at {{ dd }} .

  9. Grand style (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined by Matthew Arnold. [1] It is mostly used in longer speeches and can be used, as by Cicero , to influence an audience around a particular belief or ideology. The style is highly ornamented with stylistic devices such as metaphors and similes, as well as the use of personification.