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What are figures of speech, and how do they relate to public speaking? From the dozen listed in the text (alliteration, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, simile, synecdoche, metonymy, antithesis, personification, rhetorical question, oxymoron, and idiom),

choose and briefly define five, then give an example that you might use in a speech. What will be an ideal response?

Define critical listening and note how it is similar to, and different than, informational listening.

What will be an ideal response?