common speech
81Folk speech — Folk Folk (f[=o]k), Folks Folks (f[=o]ks), n. collect. & pl. [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f[=o]lk, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.] 1. (Eng. Hist.) In Anglo Saxon times, the people of a… …
82Pound Cake speech — The Pound Cake Speech was given by Bill Cosby in May 2004, at an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. In it, Cosby was highly critical of some members and subsets of the black… …
83Bunjevac speech — Infobox Language name=Bunjevac nativename=Bunjevački familycolor=Indo European states=Serbia [http://webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu/axd/Zip/VJN3.pdf] speakers=about 6,000 9,000 people (2002) rank=not official fam2=Slavic fam3=South Slavic fam4=Western …
84Quit India speech — The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement is best… …
85Apostrophe (figure of speech) — Apostrophe (Greek ἀποστροφή, apostrophé , turning away ; the final e being sounded) is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a talker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. In… …
86Part of speech — Part Part (p[aum]rt), n. [F. part, L. pars, gen. partis; cf. parere to bring forth, produce. Cf. {Parent}, {Depart}, {Parcel}, {Partner}, {Party}, {Portion}.] 1. One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded… …
87Ohio High School Speech League — OHSSL logo The Ohio High School Speech League (OHSSL) is the body that organizes high school forensic competition in the state of Ohio. The OHSSL provides all of the National Forensic League events, but several other events including Oratorical… …
88Four Freedoms speech — Quatre libertés Pour les articles homonymes, voir Quatre libertés (homonymie). Les quatre libertés (en anglais The Four Freedoms) sont les libertés, au nombre de quatre, que le Président des États Unis Franklin Delano Roosevelt a présentées comme …
89Four freedoms speech — Quatre libertés Pour les articles homonymes, voir Quatre libertés (homonymie). Les quatre libertés (en anglais The Four Freedoms) sont les libertés, au nombre de quatre, que le Président des États Unis Franklin Delano Roosevelt a présentées comme …
90figure of speech — Rhet. any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other …
