Speech

Speeches

Speeches are usually designed to persuade the audience or sometimes even inspire the audience. Good speeches are not boring and will use lots of emotive language as well as rhetorical techniques.

Features of a speech

Addresses the audience directly (says ‘you’ or ‘we’) to motivate action or support.
How can a speaker engage with the audience?
- E.g. Rhetorical questions - ' Should you good people have to put up with this?'.
Have one or two clear arguments that they link their paragraphs back to.
A mixture of short and long sentences so that the listener keeps paying attention.
A clear end to signal that the speech has finished.
- E.g. ' Thank you for listening'.
A strong conclusion to motivate action.

Structure

Persuasive speeches need a structure that allows the audience to remember their message and be motivated to act upon it.
Having a key message and a peak or climax in a speech can create momentum, which excites the crowd. Things that are emotive are remembered more easily

Tips for writing speeches

Speeches are presented, instead of read like a book.
This makes the literary techniques like alliteration, rhetorical questions, sibilance, onomatopoeia, repetition, and rule of 3 more powerful.
Try reading each paragraph in your head after writing it.

1Key Terms

1.1Key Terms

1.1.1Key Terms - Nouns, Verbs & Sentences

1.1.2Key Terms - Sentence and Clause Types

1.1.3Key Terms - Words, Sounds & Language

1.1.4Key Terms - Types of Language

1.1.5Key Terms - Images, Symbols & Mood

1.1.6Key Terms - Mood & Feelings

1.1.7Key Terms - Other Techniques

1.1.8End of Topic Test - Key Terms

2Language Devices

2.1Language Devices

2.1.1Metaphors

2.1.2Similes

2.1.3Metaphors & Similes HyperLearning

2.1.4Personification

2.1.5Pathetic Fallacy

2.1.6Puns & Oxymorons

2.1.7Hyperbole & Emotive Language

2.1.8Alliteration

2.1.9Sibilance

2.1.10Onomatopoeia

2.1.11Recap: Language Devices

2.1.12End of Topic Test - Language Devices

3Writing Structure

3.1Writing Structure

3.1.1Narrators

3.1.2Paragraphs

3.1.3Tense

3.1.4Present vs Past vs Future Tense

3.1.5Foreshadowing

3.1.6Structure

3.1.7End of Topic Test - Writing Structure

4Section B: Reading & Writing

5Section C: Writing

5.1Writing Task

5.1.1Discursive Writing

5.1.2Narrative Writing

5.1.3Descriptive Writing

5.1.4End of Topic Test - Writing Task

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