speech features

1. Purpose of Speech
Speeches are usuallyformal spoken presentations for a particular purpose—often to persuade an audience to
supportan idea,or to explain or describe an interesting topic or pastevent.
An effective speech
 engages the audience straight awaythrough personal reference or surprising information.
 uses humour,powerful ideas,imagery,rhetorical questions and repetition to make a point.
 uses a range of sentence lengths for effect
Successful Persuasion
Successful persuasive language appeals to:
1. LOGIC Reasoning is clear and consistent.Logic maybe real or false (i.e. giving the appearance oflogic)
2. PERSON Know and understand the audience.Knowledge ofpersonal motivations and historycan be used to
good effect.
3. EMOTION Use emotional appeal,highlyemotive words,images,and colours to stir an effective response.
Structure of a persuasive speech/ speech
Opening:
 Captures audience’s attention;
 Start with yourself and why you are speaking.
 Include an interesting factor item of information.
 Clearly state your opinion.
Body
 Developing your ideas;
 Using questions to engage listeners.
 Your argument.
 Acknowledgementofthe other argument/opinion.
Conclusion
 Summarise your speech.
 Conclude the speech memorably.
Useful words:
Adverbs:evidently; understandably;reasonable;undoubtedly;clearly; finally; strongly; adamantly
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Verbs:to challenge;to oppose;to question;to implore;to urge; to condemn;to propose;to support
Adjectives:Vital; important;essential;biased;dishonest; inappropriate;controversial;brave;foolish
Transitional words and phrases: In addition,…;Furthermore,…;Above all… It goes withoutsaying…;Of course,…;
Decidedly…;Undoubtedly…;Indeed…; In fact… Specifically,…; More importantly,… Yet,… ; However,… In
summary…
Useful phrases:
This needs to be dealtwith…; Some people feel that…; How could you possibly…;What would happen if…; This
would mean that…; Is it really worth…/ Do you really think…; Just think about…; I believe that…; Although not
everybody would agree,I want to argue that…; There are several points I wantto make to supportmy pointof view.
Firstly…; I have several reasons for arguing for this pointof view. My firstreason is…;Therefore,although some
people argue that…; think that I have shown that…; We can solve this by…; If these plans go ahead…
Read the following speech identifythe persuasive P IN A FOREST techniques (personal pronouns,alliteration,fact,
opinion,rhetorical questions,repetition,emotive language,statistics,rule ofthree)
Ladies, Gentleman and Children, lend me your ears!
I am here today to express my utter disgust at the so called ‘sport’ of fox hunting.
Some of these rich, posh, toffee-nosedpublic school boysin tights say that shooting foxesdoes not
always kill the fox outright and that hunting with dogs is actually more humane. However, that
couldnot be further from the truth. Fox hunters chose foxespurely for puerile pleasure; not

2. because they want to help farmers. Indeed, the Royal Society for the Preventionof Cruelty to
Animals reported a case of a twelve year old girl and her ten year old brotherbeing traumatised at
the sight of a fox being torn limb from limb by a pack of blood-thirsty hounds. Does this sound like
humane pest control to you?
Furthermore, being hunted by a wild pack is not a humane way to die. Statisticsshow that 92% of
foxeskilled in the hunt have a longer, more agonising death than these killed by more traditional
methods of pest control.
Stop the murder,stop the violence, stopfoxhunting!
A FOREST:
A Alliteration
F Facts
O Opinions
R Repetition
E Emotive Language
S Statistics
T Three (rule of three)
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Order of Persuasive Modes
1. Emotional
2. Logical

3. 3. Authoritative
Layout
A speech is much more about content than style. It is meant to be spoken rather than written, so it’s
more of a script. There’s no special layout like an article or letter; the focus here is more on your
language techniques. You should try and include all the persuasive writing language techniques:
Exam Tip
 Write like you talk. Your speech should read like a transcript, rather than an essay.
 When you practice, try using a text-to-speech dictation App and speak out your answer once
you have a written plan.
 Then look at how the text looks on paper and literally see what your speech looks like.
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.”
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