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Composition Skills-Speech 3 - Body of Speech

The document provides guidance on writing the body of a speech, including: 1. The body is where you speak persuasively to plead your case and sway the audience to your side. 2. Features to include are addressing the audience by name, using abbreviated words, rhetorical questions, quotes, jokes, idioms and proverbs. 3. Rhetorical questions involve the audience emotionally and psychologically while enticing them to take your side.

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Composition Skills-Speech 3 - Body of Speech

The document provides guidance on writing the body of a speech, including: 1. The body is where you speak persuasively to plead your case and sway the audience to your side. 2. Features to include are addressing the audience by name, using abbreviated words, rhetorical questions, quotes, jokes, idioms and proverbs. 3. Rhetorical questions involve the audience emotionally and psychologically while enticing them to take your side.

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E-LEARNING ITEM 31 FORM 3

Learning Area: English Language


Topic: Composition writing skills
Sub-topic: Speech 3: Body of a speech

Objective:
 write a sound body to a speech.
 use appropriate register in a speech.

Introduction

Now that you have penned an extraordinary introduction you should not spoil your
speech by writing a substandard body. The powerful feel of your introduction should be
strongly supported by a notable body.

The body of the speech

 It is in the body of your speech that you have to speak persuasively.


 The main purpose of your speech is to plead your case and at last sway the
audiences to take sides with you in your presentation.
 To be able to achieve that goal focus on the features of a speech.
 Features of a speech include: addressing the audience by their name/ using
abridged versions of words/ using rhetorical questions/ quoting statements
uttered by well-known persons/ cracking jokes/ using idioms and using proverbs.

Addressing the audience by their name

 The idea of addressing the audiences by their name is intended to get their
attention.
 It would be an effective way of winning over the attention of audiences, if you
addressed them by their name at least once in each and every paragraph.
 Addressing the audiences by their name keeps their minds from drifting away
from your speech.
 Consider the example below.

Example
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, juvenile delinquency is a menace to our
contemporary society …”
Using shortened versions of words
 Shortened versions of words are a necessary feature of your speech.
 Shortened versions of words give your speech a highly conversational and
informal tone.
 Equally important, you need remember that after all when people speak or are
engaged in conversation they normally shorten words.
 If you do the same in your speech, you practically add reality and naturalness to
your speech.
 Consider the example below.

Example

We’ve to address this issue with the seriousness it deserves, ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls.

Comment on the use of shortened words

 The words “We’ve” are a shortened version of “We have”.

Using rhetorical questions

 A rhetorical question is a question that is asked but does not require an answer.
 The purpose of a rhetorical question is to set the listener thinking things through.
 In other words, a rhetorical question is meant to involve your listeners both
emotionally and psychologically in your speech.
 A rhetorical question calls for listeners to seriously consider what you are saying
in your speech.
 At the same time the rhetorical question entices your listeners to take sides with
you.
 Consider the example below.

Example

“Should we allow juvenile delinquency to go unchallenged in our modern society?”

Comment on the rhetorical question

 On hearing the above rhetorical question every listener will inwardly say
something like, “We can’t allow juvenile delinquency to go unchallenged in our
society.”
 Once listeners inwardly say so, it means the rhetorical question would have had
its desired effect on the audiences.
 In this way, audiences become involved in the concerns of the speech.
1. State all the features of a speech that you should bring inject into the body of your
speech.
2. Write brief notes on addressing audiences by their name.
3. Write a statement in which you address audiences by their name alongside a topic of
your choice.
4. State two advantages of using shortened versions of words in your speech.
5. Write a statement in which a word is shortened to give the statement an informal
tone.
6. What is a rhetorical question?
7. Write brief notes on the effect of a rhetorical question in your speech.

Conclusion
Addressing audiences by their name, like using shortened versions of words and using
rhetorical questions, takes your speech to a high level. Give the next item on writing a
speech a reading. You will enjoy it for the reason that it is quite enriching.

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