Features of oratory and figurative speeches

This article is about the role of oral speech in communication and the development of figurative speech. Direct communication with the audience allows the syntactic, lexical and phonetic features of the written and oral types of language to be harmonized. The scope of application of oral speech is mainly designed to engage the audience. The stylistic devices employed in the oratorical style are determined by the conditions of communication. If the desire of the speaker is to rouse the audience and to keep it in suspense, he will use various traditional stylistic devices. Stylistic devices are closely interwoven and mutually complementary thus building up an intricate pattern. For example, an antithesis is framed by parallel constructions, which, in their turn, are accompanied by repetition, while a climax can be formed by repetitions of different kinds.