A GOOD SPEECH IS LIKE A
RELATIONSHIP. SOMETIMES IT’S
EASY, AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES
A LOT OF WORK.
-Anonymous
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)
Example 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.
The Special Occasion Speech
Workbook p. 88


4.5 minutes in length [+/- 30 sec.]
Manuscript delivery
 No outlines!
 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)
or
To Entertain your audience
(After Dinner Speeches)
Special Occasion Speeches aim
to inspire or to entertain through

BUILDING COMMUNITY

USING IDENTIFICATION
USING MAGNIFICATION

Commemorative Speech
A 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.
Commemorative SP and CI


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


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 Entertain
A 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.
Speeches to Entertain

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.
After-Dinner Speech SP and CI

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.
Sample Speech
Which to Choose?
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)
Special Occasion Speech Workshop


This Friday
Bring the 1st draft of your manuscript
This is not the end. It is not
even the beginning of the
end. But it is, perhaps, the
end of the beginning
-Winston Churchill
SPEECH!!!
Top 10 phobias as reported by
The Boston Globe










1. Public Speaking
2. Snakes
3. Confined Spaces
4. Heights
5. Spiders
6. Tunnels and Bridges
7. Crowds
8. Public Transportation (mostly
airplanes)
9. Storms
10. Water (as in swimming and
drowning)
Top 10 phobias as reported by
MSN










1. Snakes
2. Public Speaking
3. Flying
4. Open Spaces
5. Confined Spaces
6. Vomiting
7. Heights
8. Cancer
9. Storms
10. Death
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.
Commonly found in advertising.
Stylistic Devices


Simile – Explicit comparisons using the words
like or as to compare things that are different
yet have something in common.
Commonly found in advertising.
Stylistic Devices


Simile – Explicit comparisons using the words
like or as to compare things that are different
yet have something in common.
Commonly found in advertising.
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.
 Clichés won’t count.
Quiz Question 1

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



Caffeine is a “friend”
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 will not, will 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)
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 2

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…
Sample Speeches
Question 3

Label the following stylistic device: It didn’t
matter to him if he got any attention, his
attention was focused on making things
matter.
Question 4

Label the following stylistic device: A beard
is a baby, it takes a lot of work.
Question 5

Did you feel that the lecture groups
helped? Why or why not?
Evaluations for lecture