Things to avoid
Avoid gender pronouns and stereotyping jobs by gender.
What is identification?
Formation of common bonds between the speaker and the audience
4 parts of any story
Target audience
People who your speech is aiming to affect.
Problem/solution structure
2. Persuasive - Doing something about the situation.
Monroe’s motivated sequence
Connotative meanings
Meanings people associate with words.
Denotative meanings
Precise, literal meanings.
How to use language?
Use language appropriate to
Simile
Comparison that uses like or ASS
Metaphor
Comparison that does not use like or as
Rhythm and rhyme
Rhyming words/ using tempo and what not to make words sound pleasant.
Parralellism
Using similar arrangements of words like rich and poor, wise and foolish.
Repetition
Reusing the same words/phrases.
Alliteration and assonance
Using words that have similar firs/last vowels.
Antithesis
Putting together opposing ideas and thoughts.
Personification
ascribing human qualities to non human things.
Allusion
An indirect reference using a situation with similar premise.
Irony
The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Genre
Types of speech.
*General doctrine of probability
Protagorus
*Manuscript speech
Completely planned out; essay style.
Ex: State of the union speech by the president.
*Extemporaneous speech
NOT completely planned out speeches, like what we do in class. No speech presentations… (the fuq?)