Sentence examples for invented speech from inspiring English sources

The classical model discouraged quoting other writers (hence the use of invented speech).

Amazingly, we invented speech and writing to enable us to do things.

A problem only comes, I think, when real historical characters are introduced with invented speech and thoughts.

Even the invented speeches of Thucydides, so scrupulously identified as such, fell under this ban.

Paris combined his comprehensive knowledge with a lively writing style, which was modeled in some ways on classical historians (for example, he used invented speeches).

But this desire for what we would call balanced and accurate reporting led, paradoxically, to a most distinctive literary device: the use of invented speeches and dialogues to illustrate the progress of the war and the combatants' thinking about it.

Adopting the approach of humanist historians before him, Machiavelli used the plural "histories," dividing his account into "books" with nonhistorical introductions and invented speeches presented as if they were actual reports.

Tacitus even invented a speech for him in advance of the battle in which he describes the Romans as: Calgacus' fate is unknown but, according to Tacitus, after the battle Agricola ordered the prefect of the fleet to sail around the north of Scotland to confirm that Britain was an island and to receive the surrender of the Orcadians.

There are some conventions to assist the writer – for example, we are allowed to "invent" direct speech.

"We [have] a duty -- a duty to protect what has made the Internet the most dynamic platform for free speech ever invented," Rosenworcel said in a speech that day.

Cued speech was invented by R. Orin Cornet in 1966 shortly after William C. Stokoe Jr., a linguistics professor, successfully pushed for signing to be recognized as a language and helped end a century-long banishment of signing from classrooms.