Features of Effective Speech-Writing

For Danielle and all my wonderful fifth years, as requested. Should help you with your comprehension question “Identify and comment on four features of effective speech writing“! Remember to

• Identify the technique – include quotes / examples
• Comment on the effect of this technique on you – how it makes you feel, what image it creates in your mind, what it makes you think, how it changes your perception and gives you a new way of looking at the issue.

1. Welcome the audience
2. Introduce yourself (unless you’re really really famous!)
3. Use informal language & slang (depends on context / audience)
4. Involve the audience (personal pronouns / ask questions / interactive)
5. Use humour
6. Mention celebrities & cartoon characters
7. Include pauses & gestures
8. Facts & statistics
9. Varied sentence length
10. Quotes
11. Personal Anecdotes
12. Strong opinions expressed – backed up with relevant and logical examples.
13. Metaphors
14. Rhetorical Questions
15. Repetition of key phrases (or plant and pay-off)
16. Lists
17. Proper nouns
18. Urgent references to time
19. Contrast
20. Emotive language / Sensationalism / Dramatics
21. Hyperbole
22. Vivid feckin imagery!
23. Thank the audience at the end.

If you want a more detailed discussion of the general effect of individual techniques, look here but remember, when you discuss the effectiveness of a technique in a text, you MUST make your answer zoom in on how the technique works in this SPECIFIC EXAMPLE, not in general.