CMST 2060 Lecture : Public Speaking Notes 4 Final
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Language, style, & humor: language affects ideas of speeches, anastrophe, unusual arrangements of words or clauses in a sentence. Jfk"s inauguration speech: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. , change wording a bit to affect impact. Give me liberty or give me death : rhythm, flow of words, figures of speech, connect sentences by emphasizing the relationship among ideas, and by repeating key sounds to establish a pleasing rhythm, 4 kinds, epistrophe. Involves repeating of word or expression at the end of phrases, clauses, or sentences. Of the people, by the people, for the people. : anaphora. Involves repeating of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. There"s only one thing to tell you graduates, follow what you love, follow fellow man, follow etc. : antithesis. Involves use of contrast to make a rhetorical point.
