expressive speech
Words with feeling
Expressive speech is communication that conveys emotions, opinions, or artistic ideas rather than factual information.
In legal contexts, it refers to speech protected under free expression principles—protest signs, artistic performances, symbolic gestures.
Linguistically, it describes speech rich in feeling or emphasis: Her expressive speech moved the audience to tears.
- empathySharing another's emotions
- heart to heartCandid intimate discussion
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
emotional range · dramatization · intonation · lyricism · dramatic reading · passion · argumentation · cadence · poetry · stress patterns · connection · anger · excitement · getting through · persuasion · prosody · monologue · inflection
expressive speechmonotone
Single unvarying pitch
deadpan delivery · robotic speech · flat affect · drone · cold reading
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