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Language of Inspiration

Commemorative Speaking:
Commemorative speeches are addresses of praise, tribute or celebration.  
These pay tribute to a person, group, institution, thing, event or an idea.
Types: Eulogies, Fourth of July speeches, awards ceremonies, testimonial addresses, and dedications.


The purpose of a commemorative speech is to inspire the audience —
to heighten their admiration for the person, group, institution, event, thing, monument or idea being praised.


It enhances group identification and feeling of unity and bonding.
The aim of a commemorative speech is to express feelings, arouse sentiments, and inspire.
Commemorative speeches depend on the creative use of
vivid language and repetition.

I. Creating Empathy Through Imagery.
A.   Sensory Imagery
Word Pictures that appeal to the five senses and call up vivid detail in telling a story.
People react to symbols exactly as the do to reality.
7 Types of Sensory Imagery
1.  Visual (sight and light)
2.  Auditory (sound)
3.  Olfactory (smell)
4.  Gustatory (taste)
5.  Kinetic (movement)
6.  Tactile (touch)
7.  Thermal (temperature)
Example of sensory imagery. 
Notice how detail evokes strong emotion: Malcolm X

B.     Literary Imagery
1.  Metaphor
(word picture that compares what is unknown to the audience to something that is known to give insight on the unknown thing.
“Your eyes are the windows to your soul.” or
“My Mother was the spoonful of sugar that sweetened life’s bitter medicine.”
2.  Simile 
(A comparison that uses “like” or “as”.)
“Her eyes were like limpid pools.”or
   “The Red Man has ever fled the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun”

3.  Personification  (giving human likeness to an inanimate object.)
   “The moon looked down from the sky like a mother staring into the face of her child.”
Example of Figures of speech used to inspire: Apples of Gold by Peter Marshall.
II. Creating Empathy Through Repetition
Also known as Tone Color



    A. Alliteration — is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
“You want your speech to be a clear, concise, creative, commemorative.”




    B. Parallelism — the expression of two or more sentence elements in the same grammatical
form.
Elements are grammatically equal:
nouns are paired with nouns, verbs with verbs.

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.” —Mistinguett
“Our mission is to right wrong, to do justice, and to serve humanity”




    C. Repetition — using the same phrase over throughout your speech or in succession
as in Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the “I have a dream” phrase.



    D. Antithesis – Two opposite ideas forced together to give new insight.
“If you fail to prepare–You prepare to fail.”
or “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But never let us fear to negotiate”

Sample speeches

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