There are three main types of speeches: informative, persuasive, and special occasion. Informative speeches aim to educate by providing information on objects, events, concepts, or processes. Persuasive speeches challenge beliefs and can address questions of fact, value, or policy. Special occasion speeches must fit the event, meet time limits, and provide accurate information. Understanding speech types helps speakers choose the right approach and deliver impactful presentations.

1. The Different Types
of Speeches.

2. Three Main Types of
Speeches.
The three main types of speeches are:
-the informative.
-the persuasive.
-the special occasion.
The use of this kind depends upon the speaker's
objective.

3. The informative speech.
Provide information.
the speaker is a teacher, and his or her purpose
is to educate the audience regarding a topic.
 the topic may be an:
-object.
-event.
-a concept.
-a process.

4. Informative speech:
Speeches About Objects
Objects are things that are tangible and, thus,
recognized through sight, hearing, taste, or touch; so
speeches about objects include those about people,
places, animals, structures, etc
Examples:
-Why President John F. Kennedy was the Prince of
Camelot?
-Is Ethanol a Viable Alternative to Fossil Fuel?

5. Informative Speech
Speeches About Events
Events are happenings or occurrences, both
past and present, so possible speech topics
include the following:
-The origins of the holiday known as Halloween.
-What led to the Salem Witch Trials.
-The Primary Causes of World War II.

6. Informative speech:
Speeches About
Concepts are
Concepts
ideas,
philosophies, hypotheses,
and arguments, etc, so
informative speeches might
address topics such as
these:
-Karl Marx’s concept of
socialism.
-The principles of Feng
Shui, the Ancient Chinese
Art of Placement.

7. Informative speech
Speeches About
Processes
it is:
-how something is made.
-how something is done or how something works.
Possible topics include these:
How pearls develop in oysters.
How to administer the Heimlich maneuver.
How to organize a plot for a novel.

8. Given their visual nature, most
informative speeches are more
successful if the
speaker uses visual aids such as
PowerPoint presentations, flip charts,
graphs, models, etc

9. The Persuasive Speech :
-it usually challenges an audience’s
beliefs.
-Persuasive speeches are the most
difficult to deliver, at least successfully,
since they usually deal with controversial
topics about which people in the audience already hold strong,

10. Types of Persuasive Speeches
There are three main types of persuasive speeches:
-questions of fact.
-questions of value.
-questions of policy.

11. Questions of fact.
Are capable of proof or disproof. Questions of fact are
those which ask you to answer whether or not
something is.
Example:
-Will the stock market rally in 2010?
-Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in assassinating
President John F. Kennedy?

12. Questions of Policy
Questions of Policy ask the writer to explain what
they would do. The key word in these topics is usually
"should" as in "what should we do....". The question
asks the writer to create a plan of action to solve some
sort of problem.
Example:
-Should pro-athletes have mandatory tests for
performance-enhancing drugs?
-Are smokers being unfairly singled out for higher
taxation?

13. Questions of Value
Address the relative merit (goodness or badness) of a
thing. Here you are usually asked to choose between
things, ideas, beliefs, or actions and explain why you
choose in the manner you did.
Example:
-Do people have the right to choose to die with
dignity?
-Should dogfights be legalized?

14. When preparing a persuasive speech, speakers
must accept that at least some listeners are
going to disagree, perhaps adamantly so, with
their viewpoint, which is why speakers should
attempt to anticipate objections and
counterarguments and address them during the
course of the speech.

15. Speeches for Special
Occasions
In this types of speech there are several important points to
keep in mind:
-The speech must fit the occasion. The speech should
reflect a similar mood.
-The speech must meet the allotted time. Speakers
should be neither too brief nor too longwinded.
-Intended remarks must be accurate. For example, if
someone is presenting an award and intends to begin
with interesting facts about the recipient, these facts must
be correct.

16. In the moment of deliver a speech the speaker
should possess an understanding of the different
types of speeches and have their objective
clearly in mind, they will be capable of delivering
of the speech that the audience will remember
for a long time to come.