Motivational Speech Scoring Guide
_____ A series of analogies
_____ One or more allusions
_____ A challenge to the audience's “manhood”
_____ An appeal to “national” pride
_____ An appeal to family pride
_____ Alliteration
_____ Antithesis
_____ Other rhetorical strategies
_____ Well prepared
_____ Well delivered
_____ Effective Argument
I don't know how much time we'll have tomorrow to talk about this in class, but what style should we write in? Should it be paragraphs like an essay, should it be like Shakespeare (sorry, I forget what the style is called)?
ReplyDeleteThis is a speech, so paragraphs aren't even necessary. I won't collect anything written from you. Most people choose to deliver their speeches in contemporary English. Most, I guess, is actually an understatement. So far, everyone has delivered his or her speech in contemporary English. No one's tried blank verse yet.
ReplyDeleteIf we get facts and statistics off the internet, do we have to cite them for you? Like give you a paper of our sources?
ReplyDeleteHow many "Other rhetorical strategies" do we need?
ReplyDelete@ Danielle: You don't need a Works Cited for this assignment, though it will help your ethos if you give credit to your sources during your speech. It will also help your ethos if your sources are credible.
ReplyDelete@ Alan: As many as you like. As I'm listening to your speech, I'm listening for effective rhetoric. There is no minimum or maximum number of strategies to define "effective." If it works, you have enough. If it doesn't work, you don't.
So how explicitly stated do allusions need to be? Do paraphrased quotes from literary works count? Or do we need to reference the work itself?
ReplyDeleteYou're purpose is to use the allusion to motivate me to do what you want me to do. If you've paraphrased it so much your audience doesn't recognize it as an allusion, it's not effective. If the work is so familiar that a paraphrase connects your audience, your allusion, and your purpose, then it's effective.
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