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Public speaking, also called oratory, is the practice of delivering speeches to a live audience. [3] Throughout history, public speaking has held significant cultural, religious, and political importance, emphasizing the necessity of effective rhetorical skills.
Recorded in English c. 1374, with a meaning of "one who pleads or argues for a cause", from Anglo-French oratour, Old French orateur (14th century), Latin orator ("speaker"), from orare ("speak before a court or assembly; plead"), derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *or-("to pronounce a ritual formula").
Oratory is a type of public speaking. Oratory may also refer to: Eloquence, fluent, forcible, elegant, or persuasive speaking; Rhetoric, the art of discourse; Places
Speech written by Cato the Elder against for the criminalization of generals who take public land. Cato the Elder Uncertain date [25] [26] De Provinciis Consularibus: On the Consular Provinces: Cicero discusses his tax policy: Cicero 56 BCE [27] De Suis Virtutibus Contra L. Thermum post censuram: Concerning his virtues in Opposition to Thermus
Orator at Speakers' Corner in London, 1974 Speakers' Corner, April 1987. A Speakers' Corner is an area where free speech open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed.
The Interstate Oratory Association is the oldest public speaking organization within the United States. Founded in 1874, the IOA has held a contest for the top persuasive speakers represented from each state. Here, the 1913 IOA contest was hosted by Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky on June 9, 1913.
The epideictic oratory, also called ceremonial oratory, ... The other two kinds of public speech were deliberative or political speech, and forensic, judicial, or ...
He further stresses the role of the audience within oratory: "Their power and rank will make no small difference; we shall employ different methods according as we are speaking before the emperor, a magistrate, a senator, a private citizen, or merely a free man, while a different tone is demanded by trials in the public courts, and in cases ...