Evaluating A Speech
Evaluation of a Speech Worksheet
Lines from the Speech
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
Impact on the Audience
Example:
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. x Kennedy lets the audience know that they are facing a battle that has been around for hundreds of years.
1. That they were admitted peacefully on the campus is due in good measure to the conduct of the students of the University of Alabama, who met their responsibilities in a constructive way.
x
Kennedy shows admiration and respect to the audience to let them know he is on their side.
2. I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents.
x
Kennedy tells the audience that their prejudice and hatred needs to be stopped. He calls them to action.
3. We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is the lan d of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes? x Kennedy questions the audience’s logic about freedom.
4. Those who do nothing are inviting shame, as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right, as well as reality.
x
Kennedy restates his call to action, making it more urgent to show the audience his sincerity of the matter.
5.They are acting not out of sense of legal duty but out of a sense of human decency. Like our soldiers and sailors in all parts of the world they are meeting freedom’s challenge on the firing line, and I salute them for their honor and their courage.
x
Kennedy repeats his respect for American’s to try to get them alongside his plan for no more discrimination.
Lines from the Speech
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
Impact on the Audience
Example:
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. x Kennedy lets the audience know that they are facing a battle that has been around for hundreds of years.
1. That they were admitted peacefully on the campus is due in good measure to the conduct of the students of the University of Alabama, who met their responsibilities in a constructive way.
x
Kennedy shows admiration and respect to the audience to let them know he is on their side.
2. I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents.
x
Kennedy tells the audience that their prejudice and hatred needs to be stopped. He calls them to action.
3. We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is the lan d of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes? x Kennedy questions the audience’s logic about freedom.
4. Those who do nothing are inviting shame, as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right, as well as reality.
x
Kennedy restates his call to action, making it more urgent to show the audience his sincerity of the matter.
5.They are acting not out of sense of legal duty but out of a sense of human decency. Like our soldiers and sailors in all parts of the world they are meeting freedom’s challenge on the firing line, and I salute them for their honor and their courage.
x
Kennedy repeats his respect for American’s to try to get them alongside his plan for no more discrimination.