SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Some more speech tricks
Fellow speakers,
Use some of these tips to "tip up" the audience's interest in your speech:
Tim
Use some of these tips to "tip up" the audience's interest in your speech:
- Antimetabole - saying words in a phrase, then reversing the order of those words, to show the contrast (e.g., "We can follow the leaders while making sure the leaders lead the followers.")
- Chiasmus - change the natural word order (e.g., "You are in my prayers always." instead of the more "natural" word order "You are always in my prayers.")
- Induction - drawing general conclusions from a few specific examples (e.g., "We know he was seen around the scene of the crime. We know his gun was used to do the killing. We know he was angry at the other man. So most likely he shot the other man.")
- Asyndeton - list words without using conjunctions (e.g., "My opponent is a gun-toting, people-hating, evil-mongering man.")
Tim
