Another such speech is Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.25 This speech took about three and half to four minutes only and consisted of 276 words. This, one of the great speeches of all time, took place at the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. When Lincoln rose to make the speech commemorating the three-day […]
Ceremonial and “Special Occasion” type Speeches (1)
Many speeches, especially political type speeches, follow Pericles’ “Funeral Oration”.23 These pathos-based speeches are called Ceremonial or Epideictic speeches as they heavily rely on pathos for effect. Some writers have called them ‘special occasion’ or ‘neck-tie’ speeches. They differ from the ‘visionary’ speeches in that a visionary message is something that doesn’t exist at the […]
Persuasion: changing another’s mind
Background Agrippa, a close friend, political advisor and son-in-law of the emperor, Augustus, was renowned as the emperor’s most competent and loyal advisor. However, due to the jealousy of Livia, (Augustus’s wife) and Marcellus, (the emperor’s nephew), Agrippa eventually decided to leave Rome and go into exile. On Marcellus’s death and following the political unrest […]