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Techniques for Speeches

Techniques for Speeches. How do you get them to remember what you’ve said??. Repetition. Ensure key ideas are indelibly in your audience’s memory by saying them over again (and again…) "...and that government of the people , by the people , for the people shall not perish from the earth.".

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Techniques for Speeches

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  1. Techniques for Speeches How do you get them to remember what you’ve said??

  2. Repetition • Ensure key ideas are indelibly in your audience’s memory by saying them over again (and again…) "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

  3. Restatement • Give your key ideas in varied phrasing • Say it again, but in different words This is a day of national consecration. And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels.This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.

  4. Allusions/Similes/Metaphors • Referencing other things your audience knows about can help them connect with your message and often can lend authority to your points "And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side."

  5. Rhetorical Questions • Making the audience realize they already agree with you is powerful • The human brain naturally wants to answer a question, so it’s like an involuntary reaction on the listener’s part "It really is time to ask ourselves, 'How can we allow the rich and powerful, not only to rip off people as consumers, but to continue to rip them off as taxpayers?'“

  6. Parallelism/Anaphora • The rhythm of a speech is important. Listeners are the audience, so lyrical qualities in the phrasing are memorable • Parallelism is structuring phrases or sentences in the same grammatical format • Anaphora is the repeating of the beginning word(s) of phrases or sentences "We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."

  7. Alliteration • Like parallelism and anaphora, alliteration appeals to the listener’s “sound” memory "Somewhere at this very moment a child is being born in America. Let it be our cause to give that child a happy home, a healthy family, and a hopeful future."

  8. Hyperbole • Exaggeration can make points memorable for the shock quality That year, 1967, the Dallas Cowboys had 137 rookies in training camp. Gil Brandt was signing everybody that could walk. Only five made the team that year, and I was one of the five."

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