Language

Most prevalent symbolic system human beings use to create and share meaning about their world and ultimately, to change it

Semantic Triangle of Meaning

Argues that the meaning of a word in a language is fluid and based in the "relations of words to ideas and of ideas to things"

Speaking for Entertainment

Speaking Style that uses complex word play and ambiguity in order to give and audience a sense of joy

Ambiguity

Undefined, unclear, a vague description of a situation

Irony

Speaker implies a meaning different from or opposite of the literal meaning

Self Deprecation

Making or poking fun at oneself in order to make a larger entertaining commentary about the world

Eloquence

Speaker uses beautiful, poetic, and complex language in order to improve the audience to action

Metaphor

Comparison between two things with similar qualities in order to explain or simplify one of those things

Alliteration

Repetition of an initial sound across a set of words in a sentence

Parallelism

Repetition of a particular wording across multiple, adjacent sentences