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  2. Rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    However, Aristotle argued that speech can be used to classify, study, and interpret speeches and as a useful skill. Aristotle believed that this technique was an art, and that persuasive speech could have truth and logic embedded within it. In the end, rhetoric speech still remained popular and was used by many scholars and philosophers. [23]

  3. Individual events (speech) - Wikipedia

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    The speech is supposed to be objective, without any judgement or evaluation of the topic. [3] The speaker's job is to make a complex topic easier to understand. In intercollegiate competition, the time limit is ten minutes and the speech is typically memorized. In high-school competition, time limits vary by U.S. state.

  4. Modes of persuasion - Wikipedia

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    This process gets its name because speakers need to use the correct words during a speech so their audience correctly understands their message. If a speaker wants to use a specific word, slang, or metaphor, he/she needs to do a lot of research on his/her audience's background to understand the values and knowledge of their audience to persuade ...

  5. High school valedictorian delivers poignant graduation speech ...

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    High school class valedictorian Alem Hadzic was unusually somber before delivering his commencement speech on May 16. “People were coming over to wish me luck and I was kind of blowing them off ...

  6. Impromptu speaking - Wikipedia

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    Typically in high school speech competitions, a competitor is given 30 seconds to select a topic from a set of topics (usually three). The competitor will then have 5 minutes to compose a speech of five minutes with a 30-second grace period. There is a general outline for impromptu speeches, it is as follows: Introduction/roadmap (1 minute)

  7. Climax (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Climax is frequently used in persuasion (particularly advertising) to create false dilemmas and to focus attention on the positive aspects of the subject at hand. The initial inferior options make the final term seem still better by comparison than it would appear in isolation: "X is good, Y is better, Z is best" is a standard format.

  8. Why that 'Barbie' monologue provoked such an emotional ...

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    The text of the speech continues to spark commentary and make the rounds on social media. Above a picture of the speech's text, one Twitter user wrote , "The Barbie speech was a useful glimpse ...

  9. Some diversity efforts are ending or pausing after UNC ... - AOL

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    The medical school was criticized this past spring by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a national free speech group, which expressed concerns over the school’s ...