...TYPICAL SAMPLE PERSUASIVE SPEECH TOPICS 1. abortion 21. drunk driving 2. adoption of children 22. hunger in America 3. cruelty to animals 23. inflation 4. air pollution 24. invasion of privacy 5. air safety 25. juvenile felonies 6. death penalty 26. legalization of drinking at 18 7. Alaskan pipeline 27. prostitution 8. amnesty 28. energy crisis 9. animal shelters 29. euthanasia 10. apartheid 30. reverse discrimination 11. death with dignity 31. sex education 12. auto theft 32. taxes 13. capital punishment 33. gun control 14. care for elderly 34. nuclear waste 15. child abuse 35. ocean pollution 16. cloning 36. oil drilling 17. corruption in public office 37. organ transplants 18. cosmetic surgery 38. unemployment 19. defense budget 39. recycling 20. disarmament 40. pornography EXAMPLES OF CREATIVE PERSUASIVE SPEECH TOPICS 1. I deserve an A on this speech 2. Pete Rose is a Hall of Famer 3. Hooters is a family restaurant 4. David Archuleta should have won American Idol 5. Drink Milk 6. Maxie and Spinelli (General Hospital) belong together 7. Bring Back Crispy M&M’s 8. Change RCC’s priority registration Please come up with a creative topic so I can add it to this list in the future!!! A SPEECH TO PERSUADE (assignment) Speeches to persuade seek...
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...Community College. I am currently enrolled in a speech class. In this speech class, we were required to present a persuasive speech. This fourteenth of November, I evaluated a speech given by a classmate, Karina Cervantes. Ms. Cervantes chose to speak about Electronic Distractions while driving. My evaluation of her speech will determine its effectiveness. If the speaker hopes to give an effective speech, they must know how to choose a topic. Topic selection is an important element to giving a successful speech. In selecting a topic, the speaker should be required in knowing the audience’s likes and dislikes. Doing so should help the speaker catch the audience’s attention. As mentioned before, Ms. Cervantes chose Electronic Distractions while driving as her topic. Ms. Cervantes spoke about the dangers of being distracted while driving. She was able to provide both problems and solutions of her topic. Her speech was sturdy as she gave her own real life experience, and consequences that appeared within. Being organized while preparing and giving a speech helps both the speaker and the audience. To have an organized speaker helps the audience maintain the information more clearly. An organize speech not only looks professional, but also helps the speaker follow a guide. Ms. Cervantes followed a guideline and organized her speech dividing it in sections. Her introduction had an exceptional attention getter. Starting off her speech with the words, “Could you imagine your life changing...
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...By looking at the Virginia Convention and Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God one can see rhetorical devices which is important because you need to compare and contrast the two stories by using rhetorical analysis. Both stories are very emotional and persuasive, and have two completely different but very strong arguments. The Virginia Convention, written by Patrick Henry who at the time lived in a british ruled america. Henry wanted to break free from the british, and felt strongly about his point, but there were other people who felt strongly that the thirteen colonies should stay with the british. Henry needed a very emotional and persuasive speech if he was going to get anybody to see his way of thinking. Henry states “ give me liberty or give me death” this part of the speech is very emotional, because it is basically saying that they better give him freedom or just let him die. “ should i keep back my...
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...is President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney for the 2012 Election. The first question out of the gate with two minutes is about the economy and how the two would differentiate with the matter of jobs. Based on the coin toss, President Obama goes first for the question. As he begins with a cool, calming and collected voice he thanks the moderator, his opponent and the state of Denver. President Obama uses the ethos persuasive strategy by stating that together, America, working and embracing the problems can they overcome the issue. However when it is Romney’s turn he takes a different persuasive strategy to approach the question. He uses the logos persuasive strategy to speak about his five step plan. He uses the past economic plans that Obama had used as his data for his claim that it is not working and they need a new plan. However he is backing the approach with just his words and claims from others such as small business owners. As the two continue to debate with one...
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...How might Politicians use persuasive language to reinforce their Influential power? Introduction This investigating will focus upon the topic ‘Language and Power’, throughout it will explore how power plays a massive part in politics and how politicians use it to make them seem electable. This aspect within the investigation has been chosen because this is an area of interest and a topic I particularly enjoyed whilst studying the AS course. Not only this, but the power section, in my opinion, has the most interesting theory within it but the investigation will tie into another area which equally fascinates me, this being UK politics. This has always been something that I have followed with passion, with this in mind; it has led me to question the very topic. I would like to investigate how politicians use their language, to make them seem more electable and make them seem more favourable to the electorate. From this the Investigation will discover to what extent an election speech impacts on voting. Thus, this investigation aims to explore: • How politicians use a range of persuasive techniques to reinforce their influential power. I expect that the politician who uses persuasion most effectively will seem more favourable to the electorate. Politicians that aren’t confident may hinder their chances with the electorate, even though they use persuasive techniques. This would show...
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...What is a leader? A leader is a person who strives to better themselves and those around them. Good leaders are loyal and stay true to their word. They do what they think is right, no matter the consequences. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar gets assassinated by his so called “friends”, who turned their backs on him. Mark Antony shows many of the qualities that leaders hold in the scene of Caesar’s funeral. Mark Antony was a close friend of Julius Caesar. In the scene of his speech, he proves to be a loyal friend to Caesar. Not only is he confident and noble, but he is also very persuasive and strong minded. When Brutus and the conspirators assassinated Caesar, Antony promised Brutus that he would not speak against the conspirators....
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...Traditional On Campus Class Welcome to the Traditional On Campus version of Speech 103 Oral Communication! I look forward to getting to know each of you. Over the years, I have learned that many of you dread taking this class (don’t worry I felt the same way when I had to take this class) but I hope that you will find your worries to be unfounded. I work very hard to try to create a comfortable learning environment, primarily because I need you to participate in order for this class to work. This is a participatory-based class where we will all work together to help each other improve our communication skills. Consequently, you will play an active role in your own learning as well as active role in the learning of the other students in this class. Research has shown that when you are an active participant in a class you increase how much you remember as well as how much you can recall after the semester has ended. However, I have found that when you are an active participant in my class you will look forward to coming to each class session and your fears of public speaking will soon decrease. Since this class is participatory, you will find that you will put a lot of thought and effort into this class. Much learning will occur both in class and out side of class. However, while this class is demanding, I hope that you will both enjoy this experience and learn a great deal about communication, how you communicate, and how to be a better...
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...Seyed Danyal Banihashemi COM 1010 Marta Natalia Lukacovic February 22, 2015 Audience Analysis #1 When in it comes to giving speeches or showing presentations, it is always important to know who your audience is. This online class shows a person many ways on how to encounter your audience in order to analyze them before giving a presentation. In order to find out more about your audience, presentations have been conducted online and various students have showed their ability as well as their character through the Engagement Activities. The audience as person, individually, has their own unique sense and opinions about a particular topic when it comes to a point where they are to watch and listen to a specific topic that they may or may not know about. The speech that we all have to perform next week will have to be an informative speech. Initially, I have short-listed many topics when it came to performing this speech as it had to be both factual, important, and also interesting. I finally decided that I want to present my speech about “Piracy and Counterfeit Goods in Iran”. Most of us have already been affected and know already about piracy is our own country, but I want to focus in on a specific country where it has not been outlawed and the reasons to why it has not been achieved as of yet. Everyone has their own views on what could be interesting to them regarding this topic. It could be the reason that it is still allowed and the police and other forces of power are...
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...Coletha Mack CST 100-040W 3/5/12 Self-Analysis #2 My overall feeling about my persuasive speech is not a great one. I felt like I could have been more prepared and organized. While I was delivering the speech, it seemed as if I wasn’t holding the audience attention. I must say out of all of the speeches I was more afraid to perform. It could have been because it wasn’t a topic I was really comfortable with. During the speech I keep it upbeat. I brought in positive energy, while keeping everyone laughing. I projected my voice rather nicely. I used my hands to show emphasis on the subject. If I had to do the speech all over again, I would use notes cards. Doing it at the minute would not have been an option, regardless of what was going on with my personal life. Next time, I will stick with one subject and build from there. In comparison to my other speeches I think this one was the worst. I set goals for myself and I think I only deliver on keeping the energy up. For this speech I decided to use a cause and effect. To me cause and effect speeches are easier to write because it shows how something you do can cause you something bad to happen or good. You really don’t have to try to persuade too much because the truth is in the pudding so to speak as long as you have creditable sources. I wanted to come across nonchalant but seriously about the subject. The reason I said nonchalant because people would be more receptacle of what I have to say, the subject of cosmetic...
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...college classes to get your degree. Every day you have to use the skills of talking to people, and sometimes you even have to write to people. Having a job, you have to communicate with your co-workers, your boss, and maybe even outside sources. For example, if you were working on a construction site and you had to give instructions to your co-workers, you would want to be very informative and descriptive with what you needed them to do, or whatever you were supposed to build could come out completely wrong. Core classes in college such as speech and English can help you greatly in this department just as Sara Rajan talks about in her discussion over the core courses that can help you throughout life: For instance, public speaking courses offered at Stanford University focus on various elements for giving an effective speech, such as improving both formal and informal communication skills, learning to effectively compose a persuasive speech, and learning to clearly articulate your ideas. These skills are not only necessary for success in college, but in your prospective career as well. (Rajan) As it says in the information above, these core...
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...Examining Committee at the University of Danang on October 30th 2010 M.A. THESIS (SUMMARY) This thesis is available found at the library of DANANG - 2010 - College of Foreign Languages, University of Danang. - Information Resources Center, University of Danang. 3 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1. RATIONALE The effectiveness of a speech depends on many factors, including the mood of the crowd, the ability of the orator, the situation the crowd confronts, the topic of the speech and the using of words- the using of stylistic devices. The goal of any political speech is persuasion - you want to bring the crowd around to your point of view, whether that means convincing them to vote for you. So the frequent and wide use of stylistic devices is an important characteristic of political speeches which is an effective way to make these speeches more attractive, lively and more persuasive. A stylistic device is an example of the figurative use of words, which produces a particularly rhetorical effect when people use the language creatively in a specified context so all politicians use stylistic devices in political speeches. In the realm of discourse analysis, the typical linguistic features of political speeches have so far been the focus of attention of many linguists and researchers. However, there are not many studies of the language used in political speeches, especially stylistic devices used in political speeches of...
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...are influenced by decisions made by anyone but us. Politics and political movements containing discourses could be listed under this category of decisions. It`s been a long while since public speakers are concerned with various dimensions of speech such as sounds, gestures, syntax, rhetoric, meanings, speech acts, moves, strategies and turns. In this paper our main focus is on the rhetoric of a speech. As we know where rhetoric is concerned we should inevitably deal with literature. In other words rhetoric is like a joint which connect literature with politics and establish a method of analyzing political speeches called polio-linguistic approach. Thus we can consider political discourses as pieces of literature. Literary techniques especially rhetorical devices serve as one of the most distinctive features of the greatest and most influential speeches of all time. There is no shortage of rhetorical devices used in these speeches, but we can prioritize them by count of repetitions in political discourses. In this study first I have represented the necessity of using these types of persuasive skills in political discourses, the methods within which politicians take advantages of these skills and the different sides of a successful speech. Then after a glance through different rhetorical devices, excerpts from four of the greatest speeches in history are provided with the rhetorical devices indicated in them. Finally a quite deep examination of the most important of these rhetorical...
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...Praxis: Chapter 3 Metaphor: a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between to unlike things that actually have something in common Simile: a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as in “how like the winter hath my absence been” or “so are you to my thoughts as food to life” Hyperbole: a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton Personification: a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as having human form. Flowers danced about. Anthropomorphism: the attribution of a human form, human characteristics, or human behavior to nonhuman things, e.g. deities in mythology and animals in children's stories Morpheme: The smallest meaningful element of speech or writing. Alliteration: The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kind of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences”. Onomatopoeia: The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to hiss, buzz bang Oxymoron: a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in deafening silence and a mournful optimist Symbol: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance or convention especially a material object used...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of “The Morality of Birth Control” In the article “The Morality of Birth Control”, Margaret Sanger argued that birth control is a moral solution to unwanted pregnancies and everyone should be informed about it (559). She originally published these claims as a well-known speech. She had hoped to motivate people with positions of power to join her movement promoting birth control. This article was one of the first steps Sanger took to change society’s view about birth control. Although “The Morality of Birth Control” contains a lot of Margaret Sanger’s personal opinions, I agree with her claim and feel as though she made a persuasive argument. At the time that this speech was given, there was a lot of controversy over...
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...John Fitzgerald Kennedy is credited as being one of America’s greatest speakers. That is why, when asked to choose a speech to do a rhetorical analysis on from the Top 100 American Speeches on www.americanrhetoric.com, I had to choose his “Inaugural Address” from January 20, 1961. This speech is ranked second, under Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream.” President Kennedy utilized many of the tools typically used in rhetorical or persuasive writing. He took full advantage of Aristotle’s three areas of rhetorical speech writing: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, paired along with other literary tools such as repetition, rhythm, and comparison. President Kennedy opens his speech by establishing credibility, or ethos, “For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.(Americanrhetoric.com)” This excerpt tells the American people that he has followed the rules and has a legitimate responsibility to the American public as did the Presidents in the past. He is official. Then, a few moments later, JFK begins to capitalize on the emotions of the people, tying himself to them, identifying with them by using words such as “we.” This is the pathos part of his speech, “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights...
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