Which actions are effective public-speaking techniques? check all that apply.
a)making eye contact with the audience
b)reading directly from your notes
c)using gestures and body language
d)speaking quickly to engage the audience
e)speaking at a reasonable volume
f)anticipating audience questions
g)pronouncing words clearly and properly

Which of the following is a purpose for whitman's use of repetition of words and sounds in the poem? select all that apply.

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.