ENGLISH 9TH MONTHLY

• Kahlil Gibran


  Lebanese philosopher, poet, writer, and painter
• Kahlil Gibran was born

  January 6, 1883
• Kahlil Gibran died in New York

  1931
• Kahlil Gibran's professions


  • Poet
  • Painter
  • Novelist
  • Essayist
  • Philosopher
• Kahlil Gibran was the third best selling poet of all time behind Shakespeare and Laozi
• The day when Kahlil Gibran was born

  January 6, 1883
• Becharre, Lebanon


  The place where Kahlil Gibran was born
• When the family of Kahlil Gibran migrated to the United States in search of new opportunities

  11 years old
• Kahlil Gibran's reflections and poetry have been translated into twenty languages
• The Prophet


  1923, the book that made Kahlil Gibran known in the English speaking world
• Chapters in The Prophet

  • Love
  • Laws
  • Talking
  • Time
  • Children
  • Eating
  • Freedom
  • Giving
  • Marriage
• Kahlil Gibran: '"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."'
• Kahlil Gibran: '"Trees are poems the Earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness."'
• Kahlil Gibran: '"God made truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."'
• Lebanese Ministry of Poet and Telecommunications published a stamp in Kahlil Gibran's honor in 1971
• Mary Elizabeth gave the letters of Gibran to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
• The Telfan Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia has nearly one hundred original works of art by Gibran
• The date when Khalil Gibran died in New York City

  April 10, 1931
• Kahlil Gibran died from cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis
• Gibran was buried in Lebanon as what he wished


  1932
• Kahlil Gibran wants this to see written on his grave: '"I am alive like you, and I'm standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you."'
• Rudder


  A flat piece, usually of wood, metal, or plastic, hinged vertically near the stern of a boat/ship
• Sluggard


  A lazy and sluggish person
• Literature


  Mirror of life
• Authors


  • Use comparisons and symbolisms to show similarities between their work and real life experiences
• SIMILE


  • Comparison of two or more things with apparently similar features. Common features are stressed through the use of like and as.
• METAPHOR

  • Used to make an even stronger comparison because it shows that a particular thing is not only similar to another in terms of common features.
• CAMPAIGN SPEECH

  • It is meant to persuade people to vote for you, but make sure their vote will not be wasted on empty promises.
• The campaign speech is delivered by a candidate for the following purposes:

  1. To introduce himself/herself
  2. To present his/her plans to the voters.
  3. Justify why the voters should support him/her.
• MAKING PROMISES

  • The promises are the meat of the campaign speech.
  • It has to be made responsibly.
  • The promises have to be realistic and should be the solution to the present-day problems.
• Remember the following when making promises:

  1. Don’t focus only on wants; focus on needs
  2. Think of the resources that will be needed
  3. Make sure you have supporters
  4. Memorize the key points in your speech.
  5. Maintain eye contact and rapport with the audience.
  6. If you’re campaigning with a party, allot portions where you can recite the party’s name and other information together.
• AD HOMINEM

  • It is a Latin term that means “argument against a person”
  • It is a general category of logical fallacy mostly used in public speaking to malign a person in order to convince the audience.
• TYPES OF AD HOMINEM FALLACY:

  1. Abusive Ad Hominem
  2. Circumstantial Ad Hominem
  3. Ad Hominem to Quoque
  4. Guilt by Association
• Abusive Ad Hominem


  a direct attack on the other person’s character, targeting their age, character, gender identity, appearance, etc.
• Abusive Ad Hominem

  • are usually fallacious because the attack is irrelevant to the discussion.
• Circumstantial Ad Hominem 

  •  argues that a person’s circumstances, such as their job, political affiliation, or other vested interests, motivate their argument and thus it must be biased and false.
• Ad Hominem to Quoque

  attempt to refute an argument by attacking its proponent and accusing them of hypocrisy
•  hypocrisy


  pointing to a contradiction between their words and their deeds
• Guilt by Association


   someone is attacked because of their alleged connection with a person or group that has an unfavorable reputation.
• FALLACIOUS STATEMENT

  • a mistaken belief or argument that results from an error in reasoning.
  • use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument