An Introduction to Speeches

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​What is rhetoric and why study it?

• ​Rhetoric is the art of effective expression

• The persuasive use of language​ through appeals and techniques

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​Why study Rhetoric?

• It makes us better and more persuasive speakers/communictors

• It helps us appreciate and value public speakers, broadcasters, journalists, preachers, teachers....​

Open Ended

What speech do you vividily remember and what made that speech memorable?

OR

What is the value in learning how to speak effectively?

Killer Milke responds to George Floyd riots in Atlanta

Listen for:

• Metaphors/ Similes

• Allusions

• Imagery

• Juxtapositions

• Anaphora

• ​Hyperbole

• Parallelism

• APPEALS​

  • Ethos, Pathos

  • Kairos, Logos

Open Ended

What is a phrase that resonated with you in Killer Mike's speech? What technique or appeal was used?

Multiple Choice

’I'm the son of an Atlanta City Police Officer. My cousin is an Atlanta City Police Officer, and my other cousin, is a police officer"

• Kairos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

Multiple Choice

And, here we are, 80 years later...

• Kairos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

Multiple Choice

The Cornerstone speech is an _______ that Killer Mike uses and was written duriung the ______ War

• allusion, French-American

• allegory, Civil

• allusion, Civil

• allegory, First World

Multiple Choice

It is your duty to fortify your own house so that you may be a house of refuge in times of organization.

What technique is used in the underlined phrase?

• juxtaposition

• metaphor

• personification

• paradox

Multiple Choice

It is time to hold mayoral offices accountable, chiefs and deputy chiefs. Atlanta is not perfect, we’re a lot better than we ever were.....

• Kairos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

Multiple Choice

He casually put his knee on a human being’s neck for nine minutes as he died like a zebra in the clutch of a lion’s jaw.

Which 2 tecn

• Simile and personification

• Simile and imagery

• imagery and juxtaposition

• imagery and allusion

Multiple Choice

We don’t want to see one officer charged. We want to see four officers prosecuted and sentenced. We don’t want to see Targets burning. We want to see the system that sets up for systemic racism burnt to the ground.

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Anadiplosis

• Analogy

Multiple Choice

So, after you burn down your own home, what do you have left but char and ash?

• allegorical question

• anecdotal question

• rhetorical question

• symbolic question

Multiple Choice

When a man yells for his mother in duress and pain and she’s dead, he is essentially yelling, “Please, God. Don’t let it happen to me.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Kairos