The Powerful Effect of Speech

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The power of words can make you do anything. Benita Porter's passion for books made her feel nurtured in the library while afflicted by shyness. One year, she went to listen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s enthralling speech and it gave her confidence to create change. Her sentiment for words help her express what she feels and have comfort to an event in her life. Porter uses three strategies to talk about how words took effect in her life. Benita Porter use her choice of diction to show how a particular word means to her. For example, in her essay, "The Power of Words", she uses the word nestled. When one think of the word nestled, one would think birds being together with other birds in a nest or having warmth in a blanket. In her case, it is being in the library filled with books to read. It is her way to feel safe. Porter also uses patterns such as parallelism to express what words do to her. For example, in her essay, "The Power of Words" , she repeats "Words could" three times. She explains that "Words could" followed by a verb can make you take action. Porter is saying that words can allow you to "illuminate deeply-held truths" or even "connect or part asunder". Words can explore your minds as far one can take it. For example, if I went to a seminar that is talking about electrical engineering and its research areas , and I felt inspire on what the speaker talked about, I would research further on electrical engineering and its research areas, and decide to major it for college. That is meaning words did explore in my head and I made a further step ahead on what I want to do with my
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