In these famous speeches, you can see some important openers and closers that were used to deliver commencement and graduation speeches. Angela Davis – Pitzer College – 2012 Opener: “Good morning. What a beautiful day in Grinnell, Iowa! Congratulations, first of all, to the Class of 2007....
“It’s been a pleasure torturing you all with convoluted statistics and wordy speeches, have a great day!” “Now that we have that out of the way, time for me to get back home before my parents ground me!” “I hope you were all unable to understand anything I said! Confused? Good!
Asyndeton in George Saunders's Commencement Speech for the Class of 2013 at Syracuse University In this example the writer, George Saunders, uses asyndeton as he speaks to a crowd of graduating college students: Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things tha...
Orators can also set the atmosphere of a speech in certain ways so that the listener may expect a certain type of rhetoric. For example, compare the opening statements of two very different speeches that create two distinct atmospheres: I am happy to join with you today in what will go dow...
Examples of Speech Types Extemporaneous speeches focus on conversational delivery in which the speaker has memorized the speech with the help of brief notes. Examples of extemporaneous speeches include: Margaret Edson's 2008 Smith College Commencement Address Carol Bartz's Keynote At The 2010 Grace ...
Examples of Speech Types Extemporaneous speeches focus on conversational delivery in which the speaker has memorized the speech with the help of brief notes. Examples of extemporaneous speeches include: Margaret Edson's 2008 Smith College Commencement Address Carol Bartz's Keynote At ...
Every May, I look forward to college commencement speeches where cultural icons share their life’s wisdom to a new generation of graduates. Here’s a m… ToniKrasnic 04 June 2012 3505 50 1 MindManager Map Rapid eLearning Workshop with Tom Kuhlmann Tom Kuhlmann shares some practical tip...
Examples of Speech Types Extemporaneous speeches focus on conversational delivery in which the speaker has memorized the speech with the help of brief notes. Examples of extemporaneous speeches include: Margaret Edson's 2008 Smith College Commencement Address Carol Bartz's Keynote At The 2010...
Le Guin's "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" at Mills College, 1983 In this example from Ursula K. Le Guin's commencement address, the irregular structure of polysyndeton emphasizes certain words to activate a particular emotion: "And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in...
(David Foster Wallace, commencement speech at Kenyon College, Ohio.The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, ed. by Dave Eggers. Mariner Books, 2006) Parables in Politics "Right now, as [Elizabeth] Warren and [Scott] Brown meet voters, they are telling their stories as politicalparables, lo...