Transcript [00:00:00] Dave Bricker: Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is “Speakipedia Media,” brought to you by speakipedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and amazing … More ☛
Load a demo and view the generated results. By Dave Bricker Great words fail without great delivery, yet so many speechwriters deliver a manuscript and leave the performance up to the (often-inexperienced) speaker. Paste your speech into the box below … More ☛
Epistrophe is used to emphasize a point and create a memorable rhythm in speech. A classic example comes from Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address: ‘…of the people, by the people, for the people.’ This repetition reinforces the message of … More ☛
A monologue is a long speech given by one person.. In a theatrical context, a monologue allows a character to reveal their innermost thoughts, such as in Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be…’ soliloquy. In public speaking, a monologue … More ☛
The Rule of Threes suggests that concepts or ideas presented in threes are inherently more interesting, more enjoyable, and more memorable. Groups of three blend of rhythm and emphasis. Three is the smallest number required to form a pattern, and … More ☛
Though I rarely perform professionally, I play guitar every day. It’s my healthy drug and I’ve been addicted to it for over forty years. If you play music or ever wanted to learn how it’s probably because you heard someone … More ☛
Abraham Lincoln‘s famous Gettysburg address has been recorded by numerous orators over the years, including Orson Welles, but few of these works suggest that the speakers did anything more than read with conviction. How do you reconstruct a speech that … More ☛
Actors are encouraged to have monologues in their back pockets, rehearsed, and ready to go for auditions. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many … More ☛
Winston S. Churchill gave thousands of speeches, and though he had a memory like an elephant’s, he read every one of them from a script. To deliver these speeches in a compelling way, he wrote them out in a style … More ☛
When the urge to gripe arises, consider that no matter what dark clouds may loom on the horizon, you threaded the needle of human history. Imagine what life would have been like had you been born not so many years … More ☛
