Comp Speech Skills
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- Three main purposes for speaking
- informing, persuading, demonstrating
- Choosing a good subject
- subject meets requirements, knowing your subject, specific subject
- order of importance
- arranging information according to importance: least to greatest
- chronological order
- arranging information according to time-- how events took place
- comparison/contrast
- give information about subjects by comparing them and contrasting them
- cause and effect
- give information about a situation, problem, or process by sharing causes and effects
- order of location
- arrange information about subjects according ro where things are located in relation to each other
- problem/solution
- describe a problem and them present a solution
- allusion
- reference in a speech to a familiar person, place, or thing
- analogy
- comparison of an unfamiliar idea to a simple, familiar one
- anecdote
- short story told to illustrate a point
- antithesis
- balances or contrastsone word or idea against another, usually in the same sentence
- irony
- using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning, or to show a result that is the opposite of what would be expected or appropiate; and odd coincidence
- negative definition
- describes something by telling what is not rather than, or in addition to, what it is
- parallel structure
- repeating of phrases or sentences that are similar in meaning and structure; repitition is the repeating of the same word or phrase to create a sense of rhythm and emphasis
- rhetorical question
- question that is asked to emphasize a point, not to get an answer