Transcript: Dave Bricker (00:02) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and amazing stories from … More ☛
Transcript Dave Bricker (00:05) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakepedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker , bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and … More ☛
Oratory is the art of speaking. And Oratorical relates to the art or practice of public speaking. An oratorical speech is typically formal, persuasive, and designed to impress or inspire the audience. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ … More ☛
A demagogue is a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than through rational argument. Demagogues are skilled at rhetoric, using emotional pleas and simple messages to sway public opinion. A demagogue might claim, … More ☛
Oratory is the art of speaking. And Oratorical relates to the art or practice of public speaking. An oratorical speech is typically formal, persuasive, and designed to impress or inspire the audience. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ … More ☛
Asyndeton involves omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. This can create a fast-paced and concise effect, adding urgency or intensity to the language. A classic example is Julius Caesar’s declaration: ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.’ He could have … More ☛
Rhetoric is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, particularly the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. Rhetoric involves three main strategies known as ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos appeals to ethics, pathos to emotions, … More ☛
Quintilian sounds like a huge number, but Quintilian was an ancient Roman educator, known for his influential work on rhetoric and education, ‘Institutio Oratoria.’ His teachings emphasized not only the technical skills of speaking but also the moral integrity of … More ☛
Words and Terms related to speaking and speechwriting: Adynaton [ad-uh-NAY-ton]: A form of hyperbole in which the exaggeration is so extreme as to be impossible “You will sooner find a donkey flying than see me agree to that deal.” Allegory … More ☛
