See these language features you could use for your speech!

1. LANGUAGE FEATURES
What Language Features can you use
in your Speech?

2. He r e are a li st o f fea t u re s y o u M AY WA N T to
i nclude in y o u r sp eech . ...
Read o n. . . . . . . . . . . .

3. Rhetorical Question
A question is asked for effect, but does not need to be
answered.
e.g. Are we going to put up with so much homework?
Do you think this is right?

4. Exaggeration
Trying to impress or influence your audience by over-
stating an idea.
e.g. Millions of students all over the world go home and
rush eagerly into their homework.

5. Quotes from well-known
Sources
Directly from the place you found it (written word-for-
word).
You might get them from Movies, Television, Books,
Famous People.
e.g. Yabba Dabba Dooo, I’ll be back...

6. Language Features
Next are some language features you could use to put
into your speech...

7. Personal Pronouns
As speakers we want to make our audience agree with
us and be against things we are against.
Use YOU or WE to get this point across.
e.g. WE don’t want more homework! YOU are here to
witness...

8. Alliteration
Repeating the first letter of every word
e.g. Richie Rich, Daffy Duck

9. Rhyming
Words sounding similar can make it interesting for the
audience.
e.g. chocolate chips, greasy dips and diary whips these
are the foods that little kids are made of.

10. Onomatopoeia
Where words used sound like the thing or idea that you
are describing.
e.g. Wind Wooshing, frost crunching underfoot, woof woof

11. Figurative Language
You can also include:
Metaphors: Compare one thing to another (one thing
is/ was the other thing)
her gaze was icy...
Similie: Compares one thing to another using like or as
As thick as a brick
Her face was red like a fire engine truck
Personification: Giving human qualities to non-human
things
Clouds passed sadly over the graveyard