Hellos and Goodbyes
Parties
Errors in Reasoning
Dead Guys and the Things They Said

Fancy Language
Change My Mind
100

"I have researched this topic for the past eight hours instead of sleeping and now feel competent enough to be speaking in front of you all today"

Establish Credibility

100

At the Kid's Choice Awards, Charli D'Amelio hit the griddy while giving a speech about why Kevin Hart was receiving a Nickelodeon Blimp. 

Presentation

100

If we allow people to bring their own food and drinks to the cinema, soon people will start bringing in all kinds of contraband and it will turn into a chaotic free-for-all.

Slippery-Slope

100

Three Artistic Proofs

Aristotle; Logos, Ethos, Pathos

100

Juliet is the sun

Metaphor

100

Supporting material which quotes someone's first-hand experience 

Peer testimony

200

Roadmap of your speech

Preview Statement

200

Crispy Bread

Toast

200

How dare my opponent accuse me of political corruption at a time when we are working to ban TikTok in the United States.

Red Herring

200

Framework commonly used to appeal to human needs and values

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

200

The denotative meaning of a word

Dictionary Definition

200

Sad and happy dimension of pathos

pleasure/displeasure

300

"By a show of hands, how many of you blah blah blah?"

Attention Getter

300

The purpose of this speech is to pay tribute to a person, a group of people, an institution or an idea

Commemorative

300

We should continue to use leeches for medical treatment because they have been used for centuries, and our ancestors must have known what they were doing.

Appeal to Tradition

300

Persuasive Speech Organizational Pattern

Monroe's Motivated Sequence

300

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Antithesis

300

Several facts to general conclusion

Inductive Reasoning

400

This should not be in your mouth.

Gum

400

The artistic proof you'd invite to meet your parents at a dinner party

Ethos

400

I saw a group of teenagers using their phones during a school assembly, so this generation must be completely addicted to technology and unable to focus on anything else.

Hasty Generalization

400

"Four score and seven years ago our four fathers fought..."

Lincoln

400

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Anaphora

400

Type of organization pattern used to present the opposition's argument

Refutation

500

Common phrase that is usually mandatory in standard introductions; avoid at all costs in speech introductions.

"My name is..."

500

At the Oscars, Jack Black gave a speech that thanked all the people that helped him win the award.

Acceptance

500

Laker Fans

Bandwagon

500

Athenian Naval Commander and Politician; Battle of Salamis

Themistocles

500

Actions speak louder than words

Cliché

500

"Just as a caterpillar goes through a metamorphosis to become a butterfly, so too must we go through a transformational process to become our best selves."

Analogical Reasoning

600


Memorable End

600

There was a eulogy, but no one died.

Retirement Party

600

You can't trust what he says about climate change, he's not a scientist, he's just John Cena.

Ad Hominem

600

Roman Orator; Delivery > Content

Cicero

600

"I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond!"

Epistrophe

600

Four components of ethos

Good character (trustworthy), Goodwill (friendly), Dynamism (charismatic), Common Sense (competent)