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Features of a speech

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    Can you remember the features of an effective speech?
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  • What is a rhetorical question?
    A question asked for effect, more than for an answer
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  • What is an anecdote?
    A personal story (often short and funny)
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  • What is emphasis?
    Stressing or placing pressure on a specific word to give it importance
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  • Why would you use a gesture?
    To emphasise a point or depict your ideas
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  • Why would you use a pause in your speech?
    To create a moment of drama, or to allow yourself a moment to breathe
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  • What is the difference between content and delivery (of a speech)?
    Content is the words you say and delivery is how you say them.
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  • Give an example of a list of three!
    ____, _____ AND ______
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  • Why is humour or irony effective in speeches?
    Because it is engaging and funny!
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  • Why is facing the audience / looking at people important whilst talking?
    So people can hear you and understand you.
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