Persuasive speeches
Unit 1: Looking at speech through a Rhetorical lens.
You will study Rhetorical Devices of Speech and have a test on them.
Rhetorical devices are techniques used to sway or impact an audience. They are often used in advertising like this ....
"Anadiplosis: Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase.
"When your cable company keeps you on hold, you get angry. When you get angry, you go blow off steam. When you go blow off steam, accidents happen. When accidents happen, you get an eye patch. When you get an eye patch, people think you're tough. When people think you're tough,people want to see how tough. And when people want to see how tough, you wake up in a roadside ditch. Don't wake up in a roadside ditch: Get rid of cable and upgrade to DIRECTV"
-- DIRECTV Ad, 2012" Source
Or this ....
You will study Rhetorical Devices of Speech and have a test on them.
Rhetorical devices are techniques used to sway or impact an audience. They are often used in advertising like this ....
"Anadiplosis: Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase.
"When your cable company keeps you on hold, you get angry. When you get angry, you go blow off steam. When you go blow off steam, accidents happen. When accidents happen, you get an eye patch. When you get an eye patch, people think you're tough. When people think you're tough,people want to see how tough. And when people want to see how tough, you wake up in a roadside ditch. Don't wake up in a roadside ditch: Get rid of cable and upgrade to DIRECTV"
-- DIRECTV Ad, 2012" Source
Or this ....
Download the file below to see the list of Rhetorical Devices we use for analyzing Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream Speech"
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Speeches come in many shapes and sizes. They can be long or short; formal or informal; and they can be fit in to several categories such as: Informative or Instructional, Entertaining and Celebratory (aka Special Occasion speeches). These categories are not mutually exclusive of each other. Often, for example, a speech can Inform and Entertain. Click the button for more information on individual speech types.
Commencement address / Ceremonial Speech
Instructional Speech
Persuasive speeches
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emmeline_pankhurst_freedom_or_death.docx | |
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What do all of these speeches have in common? They are ALL inspirational!
Speech Annotation
The image to the left is an exemplar of how to use Annotation to get a solid grasp on a speech. The Annotation is of the end portion of Winston Churchill's 1940 "Their Finest Hour" speech. Listen to the speech here.
Pick a speech from above. Print and Annotate it using the exemplar to the left as a guide. Make sure you touch on all 8 of the strategies to the left.
The image to the left is an exemplar of how to use Annotation to get a solid grasp on a speech. The Annotation is of the end portion of Winston Churchill's 1940 "Their Finest Hour" speech. Listen to the speech here.
Pick a speech from above. Print and Annotate it using the exemplar to the left as a guide. Make sure you touch on all 8 of the strategies to the left.
Look below to the "Persuasive_speech_presentation_outline_and_rubric.doc" link to the assignment designed by Don Brodhagen to see what you are going to be doing next...
View a simple slideshow with pointers on how to create a speech here.
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