by Harrison Durland | Jan 18, 2020 | Communication/Rhetoric, Speaking, Technique
Recently, Thaddeus Tague dug up an old document that Ethos has used for coaching: a figures of speech handout. “Figure of speech” broadly refers to deliberate patterns or abnormalities in language with a goal of producing some effect in the audience; it includes...
by Anna Johansen | Dec 20, 2017 | Communication/Rhetoric, Technique
Let’s say you’re visiting Australia. On the western edge of Cape York Peninsula, there’s a group of people called the Kuuk Thaayorre. The language they speak doesn’t have words for left or right, forward or back. Instead, its speakers describe locations using north,...
by Noah Howard | Dec 9, 2017 | Communication/Rhetoric, From Intermediate to Advanced
Having trouble getting your points across? Feel as though your audience is almost falling asleep as you talk? Getting comments like, “try not to speak monotone” or, “try to sound more interesting”? If any of this sounds like you, fear not, because all is not lost. You...
by Ty Humphrey | Sep 2, 2015 | Technique
The 21st century is an amazing place that gave us the disastrous, candy-coated train wreck that was the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. The awards show aired last night for two painful hours, at the end of which Kanye West was awarded the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard...
