It means to make better, improve, etc.
Our second word was elocution. Which is...
Elocution would be the way someone speaks.
Our third word was trite!
It means something that is hackneyed (a new word for me too!), like a cliché; a phrase or word that lacks a great effect due to being overused.
And now, since my AP Lang teacher is super awesome, we're going to have words of the day! How exciting. So, I guess I will put them down for today!
Definition: Rapport (noun) - a harmonious relation or connection, not necessarily a relationship that is intimate.
Example:
Rapport – the Key to Influence
Rapport is the key to influence. It starts with acceptance of the other person's point of view, their state and their style of communication. To influence you have to be able to appreciate and understand the other person's standpoint. And these work both ways: I cannot influence you without being open to influence myself.
http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/relationships_rapport.html
Vignette (noun) - brief literary sketch
Example:
Vignette
In literature, poetry, and film, a vignette is a brief, indefinite, evocative description or account of a person or situation. Vignettes are usually meant to give a sense of a character rather than to advance a narrative.
They are frequently impressionistic and poetic, even if rendered in prose or visual form, a tendency reinforced by the term's secondary meaning in photography: a loss in clarity or brightness at the edge of an image due to the occlusion of a lens's circular optics on square or rectangular emulsion.http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3537/persuasive_games_videogame_.php?page=2
Two Tanka
From outside my house,
only the faint distant sound
of gentle breezes
wandering through bamboo leaves
in the long evening silence.
Late evening finally
comes: I unlatch the door
and quietly
await the one
who greets me in my dreams.
-- Otomo No Yakamochi, (718-785)
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/87.html
Sentence: Although the paragraph did not did not do much to progress the plot, it gave an excellent illustration of the idiosyncrasies of the main character.Spread the word. Find new words.
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ReplyDelete1) A co-worker and I established a brief rapport during a business trip to Maine. Even though I may never work with this person again, I was happy to have this temporary, relaxing relationship while far away from home.
2) I asked my wife to give me her thoughts on my old jacket I always wear and she responded with a little vignette, a few words that described the texture, smell, and agelessness of my jacket. I wish she had only said she liked it.
By the way - your sentence for vignette comes from a website I always read (gamasutra) and the referenced article was written by a professor at Georgia Tech (Ian Bogost) whom I had for one semester.
No WAY!!! That's so cool! I love how things connect like that! =)
ReplyDeleteGood to see that you are ameliorating trite speech through improved elocution;)
ReplyDeleteThis personal vignette on vocabulary helps build rapport with almost perfect strangers...this is fun;)
ReplyDeleteOoh-wee! That's right Silly Sal :p (or... mom)
ReplyDeleteIn uncomfortable networking events, it is usually a breath of fresh air when one encounters rapport with another stranger.
ReplyDeleteThe director believed it was important to begin the film with a vignette of the main character, so as the audience would understand the situation and actions that would later ensue.