... 3. An investigation into the thematisation of English Graduation Speeches. 9 3.5. DATA ANALYSIS After collecting the data, I examine and describe them. The graduation speeches are analyzed ... a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses. As shown in the above example, in (4.73) parallel structures are made up at clause level. At lower level of parallel, word balancing ... lexical choices and syntactic features are also important to make a good speech. Let us take an example in the graduation speech of the US president, Barrack Obama, at the University of Michigan...