Discuss the concepts of personification and alliteration. What are they? How do they differ and when should a person use them?
What will be an ideal response?
Personification is a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to a concept or inanimate object. Alliteration is the repetition of beginning sounds in words that are adjacent or near one another. Explanations will vary.
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The ________ were the first people to develop an organized system of writing
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McClelland used ______ as an indicator of a culture's degree of need for achievement.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. It is natural for the party who didn’t call for mediation to feel suspicious and mistakenly think that the mediator works for the other party. 2. Intake coordinators are the salespeople of mediation. 3. When asked a direct question about mediation, such as, “Do you know what mediation is?” most clients would volunteer that they did not know. 4. In intake coordination, it is important that the disputants receive exactly the same information, including the same amount of description about the mediation process. 5. The intake coordinator should correct disputants immediately if they make the assumption that the mediator is biased toward one party or the other.
The denotative meaning of a word is
A. often too technical to be used in a speech. B. based on the audience's sense of appropriateness. C. usually more abstract than its connotative meaning. D. its literal or dictionary meaning. E. what the word suggests or implies.