Speech Analysis
Name: ________________________________________________________ Period: ______________
Title of Speech: ______________________________________________________________________________
SOAPSTONE THE SPEECH:
1. Who is the speaker? Does the speaker have authority over the topic? If so, How do they establish
their authority?
2. What is the occasion of the speech?
3. What is the intended audience?
4. What is the purpose?
5. What is the subject?
6. What is the tone of the speech? How is the tone established?
ANALYZE THE SPEECH FOR DELIVERY TECHNIQUES:
7. What gestures are effective? What gestures are distracting?
8. Comment on the speaker’s body language. What is their body language saying?
9. Comment on the speaker’s vocal variety. How does their volume and pitch change?
10. Comment on the speaker’s rate of speaking. How does their pacing change?
11. What rhetorical devices are used and what is their effect? (Simile, metaphor, personification,
imagery, allusion, etc.)