Who said that?
Types of Speeches
Good, Great, or Garbage
Rhetorical Situations
The Slavery Debate
100
“Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen. Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, whilst bloody treason flourished over us.”
Who was Marc Anthony?
100
This type of speech proposes a change or action to be taken in the future.
What is deliberative (policy)?
100
This aspect of a great speech refers to the fact that great speeches tend to be given in places of public significance like monuments or battlefields.
What is the setting?
100
Which part of the rhetorical situation refers to the problem or an imperfection marked by urgency?
What is the exigence?
100
This was the speaker that developed and supported the "Great Compromise" to maintain the Union in 1850.
Who was Henry Clay?
200
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the empire of Japan.”
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt? (Day of Infamy)
200
This type of speech classifies an event or action, seeking an just interpretation of the past.
What is forensic?
200
This is what the message of a great speech should do.
What is uplift the human spirit?
200
This is who will need to mediate the change to resolve the exigence.
Who is the audience?
200
Southern leaders defended their rights to maintain slaves based on what value?
What is equality (of the states)?
300
“All of us have suffered here, in this country, political oppression at the hands of the white man, economic exploitation at the hands of the white man, and social degradation at the hands of the white man. Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.”
Who was Malcolm X? (Ballot or Bullet)
300
This type of speech praises or honors a particular set of values.
What is epideictic?
300
This speaker tended to ramble, use faulty and contradictory logic, and use his power to condemn any opponents.
Who was Hitler?
300
During FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech, these included his need to allay the audience's fears, lack of information, and outrage.
What are psychological constraints.
300
People who, like William Garrison and Fredrick Douglass, argued that slavery was immoral and should be abolished.
Who were abolitionists?
400
“The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not oppressed by the weight of it.”
Who was Edmund Burke?
400
Patrick Henry gave a stirring version of this type of speech to convince the Virginia House of Burgesses to raise an army in revolt against Great Britain.
What is deliberative (policy)?
400
This speaker's "I Have a Dream" speech is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest speeches in American history.
Who was Martin Luther King?
400
A speech that does this resolves the exigence for the audience while working within the constraints of the situation.
What is a fitting response?
400
The senator who gave such an insulting condemnation of southern support for slavery that he was later beaten nearly to death by a representative defending the honor of his family and state.
What was Charles Sumner?
500
"this cry of Union comes commonly from those whom we cannot believe to be sincere. It usually comes from our assailants; but we cannot believe them to be sincere for if they loved the Union, they would necessarily be devoted to the Constitution."
Who was John C. Calhoun?
500
Frederick Douglass' stirring condemnation of the hypocrisy of American Slavery in his 4th of July oration is a negative form of this type of speech.
What is epideictic?
500
This speaker's failed apology from the Map Room of the White house was rejected by the public and allowed opponents to press for impeachment.
Who was William J. Clinton?
500
This was the exigence Malcolm X addressed in his "Ballot or the Bullet" speech.
What was that African-American support for the democratic party had not led to greater political rights.
500
Fredrick Douglass explained that this was Lincoln's first priority as president.
What was preservation of the Union?
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