Who is the Speaker?
The time of my departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live.
Which is better God only knows.
Socrates
Tristan
A speech given after dinner.
An after-dinner speech. (Duh!)
"I have a dream!"
Martin Luther King
What is Pathos?
Appealing to the shared common sentiments and values of the audience.
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
This student's speech mentioned how he had to endure his great-grandparents' obloquy and diatribe.
Ozzie
"On behalf of the Academy, who gave me this awary, I would like to thank ..."
Acceptance speech
"I have been to the mountain top!"
Martin Luther King
How does Dialectic differ from Rheotic?
Dialectic is a dialogue; rhetoric is the science of monologues.
"Brutus is an honorable man."
Marc Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
This student described how an 18-wheeler hit him, while he was delivering candy canes to his friend in the hospital.
Caleb
Persuasive speech
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan
Who said, "Always obey your parents, when they are present"?
Mark Twain
"Give me liberty of give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"Follow your dreams and make your bed every day."
Shiv
The Apology of Socrates is an example of this kind of speech, which takes place at a trial.
Forensic
"Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."
William Faulkner
Alexander Hamilton wrote most of this famous speech, which was never delivered as a speech, but only printed in a newspaper.
Washington's Farewell Address
"Four score and seven years ago ..."
Abraham Lincoln
"Will I ever need to recite Virgil from memory to solve a problem?"
Lucy
A speech made off-the-cuff, with no written text.
Extemporaneous speech.
"An iron curtain has descended across the continent."
Winston Churchill
According to Ozzie, what does the international symbol of a picture of a baby with a slash over it mean?
"You may not use wire cutters."