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Speech

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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

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

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

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.
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Key Terms

1.1

Key Terms

1.1.1Key Terms - Nouns, Verbs & Sentences1.1.2Key Terms - Sentence and Clause Types1.1.3Key Terms - Words, Sounds & Language1.1.4Key Terms - Types of Language1.1.5Key Terms - Images, Symbols & Mood1.1.6Key Terms - Mood & Feelings1.1.7Key Terms - Other Techniques1.1.8End of Topic Test - Key Terms
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Language Devices

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Language Devices

2.1.1Metaphors2.1.2Similes2.1.3Metaphors & Similes HyperLearning2.1.4Personification2.1.5Pathetic Fallacy2.1.6Puns & Oxymorons2.1.7Hyperbole & Emotive Language2.1.8Alliteration2.1.9Sibilance2.1.10Onomatopoeia2.1.11Recap: Language Devices2.1.12End of Topic Test - Language Devices
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Writing Structure

3.1

Writing Structure

3.1.1Narrators3.1.2Paragraphs3.1.3Tense3.1.4Present vs Past vs Future Tense3.1.5Foreshadowing3.1.6Structure3.1.7End of Topic Test - Writing Structure
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Section B: Reading & Writing

4.1

Writing Formats

4.1.1Letter4.1.2Reports & Essays4.1.3Journal/Diary Entry4.1.4Speech4.1.5Newspaper Article4.1.6Leaflet4.1.7Review4.1.8Travel Writing4.1.9End of Topic Test - Writing Formats
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Writing to...

4.2.1Writing to Inform4.2.2Writing to Inform - Example4.2.3Writing to Explain4.2.4Writing to Explain - Example4.2.5Writing to Persuade4.2.6Writing to Persuade - Example4.2.7Writing to Argue4.2.8Writing to Argue - Example4.2.9Writing to Persuade vs Writing to Argue4.2.10Writing to Advise4.2.11Writing to Advise - Example4.2.12End of Topic Test - Writing to...
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Acronym of Techniques - DAFORESTAR

4.3.1Direct Address4.3.2Alliteration4.3.3Facts4.3.4Opinions4.3.5Repetition4.3.6Exaggeration (Hyperbole)4.3.7Statistics4.3.8Triple (Rule of 3)4.3.9Emotive Language4.3.10Rhetorical Questions4.3.11End of Topic Test - DAFORESTER
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Section C: Writing

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Writing Task

5.1.1Discursive Writing5.1.2Narrative Writing5.1.3Descriptive Writing5.1.4End of Topic Test - Writing Task

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Journal/Diary Entry

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