Welcome to Lesson five, improving your descriptive powers. How can you improve your language? In public speaking, public speakers need to have a large vocabulary and good descriptive powers in order to accurately and vividly convey their thoughts. The person who only knows the primary colors of blue, red and yellow is then able to describe a landscape as the person who knows how to differentiate move, chartreuse, indigo, violet, and purple. A person's descriptions typically relate to size, shape, color, texture, or even feelings evoked by objects and people. One method of describing something is to use precise, accurate language.

Build your vocabulary, a second method of describing something to use A variety of words and expressions. A basketballs surface texture is described as coarseness, topography, an undulating surface infiltrated by scores of bulging protuberances, the snow soft, rolling and weight. The serene Earth in the stalling maneuver becomes spinning fields as the engine makes a lugging sound and labor's into a steeper and steeper climb. vocabulary in each case is impressive in its variety and appropriateness. It's not how many words you know, the more words you know, the better. But no matter how many you know, your success depends on how you use the words you know.

You can't use all the words you know speaking, every word you know today, there's not a good speaking word. employed denotative and connotative Meaning. A third method of describing something is to use the connotative dimension of words. denotative meaning is the dictionary meaning, the objective meaning without an emotional component. connotative meaning is what the word suggests its emotional content. For instance, if you refer to a woman as abroad, that denotative definition may mean a female.

But the connotative definition property means a sex object. The same thing holds true if a man being referred to as a hunk. State the familiar in an unfamiliar way. A fourth method of describing something is to state the familiar in an unfamiliar way to make it more striking and memorable. For example, the bird carried the sky on its wings is more exciting imagery than the bird flew across the sky. To make your speeches, more fun, Effective, use precise, accurate language and play a wide vocabulary.

Use both the genitive and connotative meaning of words, make comparisons and state the familiar in an unfamiliar way. learn new words by reading self help books, stories, and poems by listening carefully to how literate people use the language. Use resources like the dictionary, the thesaurus, and handbooks on grammar and usage. Learning how to express yourself through language is not an easy task. But people who do it well make it look easy. provide clarity.

If the audience doesn't understand the message instantly, and the speaker has, to some extent failed. This every possible measure must be taken to assure that all her words and thoughts are perfectly clear to the audience. Throughout your talk, words are your prime means For helping your audience understand your message, devices that will help you achieve clarity in your talk our summaries and transitions. If your talk consists of three well researched major points, list those three points in your introduction. So your audience will know at once, what ground you will cover, discuss them in depth, summarize them at the end of your talk and emphasize any conclusions that they lead to. Another aid to clarity is the use of transitions.

Words that indicate the connection between ideas which would show whether you are continuing in the same vein, or about to shift to another subject or topic. Confucius the Chinese philosopher said it all some 2400 years ago, and language, clearness is everything. ensure accuracy as a conscientious speaker, you're innocent Permission should be as current and as accurate as research can make it the surest and quickest way for you to damage your credibility, this dispute fourth misinformation use appropriate language. In addition to being precise, the language should also be suitable to the subject audience on occasion. The use of slang depends largely on the occasion of your talk, and the relationship between you and the audience. At a formal, or even a semi informal affair, slang would violate good taste, even if you know, almost all of the guests.

In any case, it's important to resist the temptation to overuse slang, too much of it will degrade any talk. It's relatively easy for a knowledgeable speaker to provide more information than an audience without expertise in that particular area can easily absorb. I sure hope that I'm not doing that right now with all the information I'm providing you on this subject.