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 […]

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 […]