A GOOD SPEECH IS LIKE A RELATIONSHIP. SOMETIMES IT’S EASY, AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK.

-Anonymous

Sample Speech

Ronald Reagan, “Challenger Speech” January 28,1986. (W p. 94) QUIZ Question 1: Jot down the values you hear praised

What was special about the people being honored?How does their example teach or encourage us?

Special Occasion Speeches

The ancient Greeks called

this epideictic oratory.

Special Occasion Speeches aim to inspire or to entertain through BUILDING COMMUNITY USING IDENTIFICATION USING MAGNIFICATION

When we aim to inspire, we celebrate what we hold in common in our community.

We reaffirm the values We recommit ourselves to live according to

those values

The Special Occasion SpeechWorkbook p. 88

4.5 minutes in length [+/- 30 sec.] Manuscript delivery

No outlines required! Still needs to be organized with connectives,

and proper introductions and conclusions. Still needs a Specific Purpose and Central

Idea

The Special Occasion Speech

No source citation requirements!

Two Different Approaches

To Inspire your audience (Commemorative Speeches)

orTo Entertain your audience(After Dinner Speeches)

Commemorative SpeechA speech that pays tribute to a person, a group of people, an institution, or an idea.

Commemorative Speeches What to do:

Explain your personal attachment. Relate stories that explain why you are

inspired. Explain to the audience what they can

learn. Help the values have an impact through

creative language.

Commemorative Speeches What NOT to do:

Don’t deliver an informative speech. Don’t give a Wedding Toast or Eulogy. Don’t rely overmuch on quotes from

others.

SP: To inspire my audience with the lessons I learned from my grandfather.

CI: My grandfather taught me to live my life as best as possible by showing patience, helping those less fortunate than myself, and being honest.

Commemorative SP and CI

Commemorative SP and CI SP: To inspire my audience

through celebrating the example of Rosa Parks.

CI: Rosa Parks inspired us all to act more responsibly in the world as we imitate the spirit of courage and conviction embodied in her example.

Speeches to EntertainA speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a lighthearted manner.

Speeches to Entertain What to do:

Explain your personal attachment. Relate the humor directly to your audience. Include a lesson or moral to be learned in the

end of the speech.

After-Dinner Speeches What NOT to do:

Don’t put on a standup comedy routine. Don’t use someone else’s stories. Don’t use inappropriate humor.

A speech about my family SP: To entertain my

audience with stories of my family’s summer reunions.

CI: The characters in my family sometimes do outlandish things, but I wouldn’t trade my time with them for anything.

Speeches to Entertain

A speech about my term abroad SP: To entertain my

audience with tales from my semester in Spain.

CI: My study abroad experience was full of amazing and bizarre events, but I learned more about myself and how to deal with differences than I ever expected to.

After-Dinner Speech SP and CI

Sample Speech to Entertain

Which to Choose?

Quiz Question 2 As discussed moments ago, what is the central

goal of Special Occasion speaking?

Final Exam It isn’t required! It can’t hurt your grade. It’s all multiple choice. It’s cumulative. (covers material from all

semester) 3 o’clock lecture: 2:15-4:15 Monday, Dec. 15 2 o’clock lecture: 12-2 Tuesday, Dec. 16

Last bits due… Special Occasion Topic form due Thursday at

midnight. (Tomorrow night!) Class Friday is ONLINE! Special Occasion Workshop Friday after break. The Required Outside Speech Observation is

due this Friday. [Bonus Outside Speech can be turned in through Workshop Day]

Lectures remaining Wednesday, 17 Nov 2010

Game development - 7:00 PM @ 1210 LeBaron Hall - Mike Upah

Leadership: The Art of Developing Followership - 7:30 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Anne Mulcahy

Thursday, 18 Nov 2010 Algorithmic Thinking in Biology - 8:00 PM @

Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Iowa State professor of computer science Vasant Honavar

Language Matters

Chapter 11

Denotation vs. Connotation

Denotation is the dictionary definition. Connotation is the cultural meaning—what the

terms suggests or implies. "House" vs. "Home"

One feature of vivid language is imagery.

Concrete Words Simile Metaphor

Personification

Stylistic Devices Simile – Explicit comparisons using the words like

or as to compare things that are different yet have something in common.

“A hairless face is like a Christmas tree without the lights or ornaments.”

Stylistic Devices Simile Example

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.

Stylistic Devices The cliché is like the cardinal sin of similes!

Originality matters this round.You can do better than using other

people’s words.

Quiz Question 3 Create a simile about speech class. Don’t use a

cliché or you won’t get points for this question!

Stylistic Devices Metaphor – an implicit comparison that does not

use like or as to compare things that are different yet have something in common.

Stylistic Devices Metaphor example:

A crocodile’s teeth are white daggers ready to tear through you.

Metaphor “well-worn face sweater” Referring to the “chapters” of a life Space as a “frontier”

Stylistic Devices Personification – Giving life-like qualities and

characteristics to inanimate objects.

Stylistic Devices Personification Example:

I think that batteries are the most dramatic of all objects. Most things will break or stop working, but batteries die.

A second feature of vivid language is rhythm.

Parallelism Alliteration Antithesis Repetition

Stylistic Devices Parallelism – The similar arrangement of a pair or

series of related words, phrases, or sentences.

Stylistic Devices Parallelism Example

I would not, could not, on a boat! I would not, could not, with a goat!

Parallelism Examples Parallelism

Reagan “There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews, and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space.” (W p. 94)

Bush “Americans are generous and kind, resourceful and brave.” (W p. 100)

Stylistic Devices Alliteration – Repetition of the initial consonant

sound of close or adjoining words.

Stylistic Devices Alliteration Example

Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickled Peppers “Beards, they’re beautiful, buxom, bodacious

and let’s face it, they're kinda bad.”

Quiz Question 4 Create a sentence that uses Alliteration to

describe your speech lab.

Stylistic Devices Antithesis – The juxtaposition of contrasting

ideas, usually in parallel structure.

Stylistic Devices Antithesis Example

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

“We are not defined by our traits, we define our traits.”

Stylistic Devices Repetition – Repeating the same word or set of

words at the beginning or end of successive clauses or sentences.

Stylistic Devices Repetition Example

I have a dream… One hundred years later… Go back to…

Impromptu Speaking Speaking with little or no preparation P. 133 in the Workbook Examples

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