Speech

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Speech

• Introduction to Speech
• Mrs. England

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Written v. Spoken Language
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Simple Words

• Difficult words unfamiliar 3 syllables
• Maintain the audience
• Sound intelligent but not stuffy

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Precise Words

• Clear and accurate expression
• We had a bad club meeting yesterday.
• frustrating, boring, disorganized,
  nonproductive
• Mrs. England looked through the window.
• peered, gazed, glanced
• Diction
• dictionary
• thesaurus

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Specific Words

• allows audience to visualize your speech

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Concrete Words

• concretethings perceived by one or more of the
  five senses
• abstractthings or ideas not perceived by the
  senses
• both are necessary in a speech
• concreteeasier to understand
• abstractidentify wider thoughts and ideas
• concrete words can be used to describe abstract
  ideas