One Day When You Speak Rhetorical Analysis
Proverb: “Things are not always what they seem.”
1. What did you do well? Elaborate on why you think you did well on these aspects of your speech.
What I believe I did well on was link the proverb with the speech and told a story that relates to it. The story was about how I tried skydiving for my first time, and was nervous for it. But after doing it I ended up liking it. Also I believe I did well when it came to looking at my note cards. Only looking backs at it a couple of times and always tried to make eye contact with the audience.
2. Proverb: Did your audience learn something meaningful about you due to your choice of proverb? Was your proverb connected to a personally relevant story? I believe my audience learned something about me from my choice of proverb because I explained in detail about why I chose this proverb and what was running through my mind leading up to the event. They also learned about my fear of heights. Yes, my proverb was connected to a personal relevant story because I was going to try something for my first time and it seemed different than I thought it was. …show more content…
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Quality of the narrative: Was your storytelling strong and interesting? Was it easy to understand? How strong was your narrative compared to other speeches you heard this round? I thought my storytelling was interesting because not a lot of people experienced skydiving and I explained how the nervousness factored my view about skydiving, for strong I feel I could of done better by adding more to it like how I felt during the skydive and how I felt when I landed. It was easy to understand I kept the story organized in order of events. I felt mind wasn’t as strong as other speeches some of the speeches really engaged with the audience by asking them about questions and some speeches related to the audience by having very similar
experiences.
4. Language: Your language choice is an important part of your speech’s success. Were your word choices specific, descriptive, interesting, and vivid? My language choice was descriptive, I explained the story with detail but I could have done better with adding more events leading up to the end. I tried to make it sound interesting by trying to make a joke about my brother to catch the interest of my audience.
5. Delivery: Evaluate your posture, volume, vocal energy, and extemporaneous delivery. How comfortable were you while you gave your speech? What could you do to be more comfortable during your next speech? When it came to volume I spoke in a moderate voice enough for my audience to hear me. I was standing still when it came to my posture, and had I did not have a great vocal energy I could of emphasize on the important events. What I can do to get more comfortable for my next speech is to practice more, instead of practicing my speech on one person I can practice on a group of people.
6. Compared to other speeches these rounds, what aspects of your speech can you improve upon? The aspect of my speech I can improve on is better delivery, I saw I stumbled over a couple of words I forgot, so practice my speech more and memorize it better. What I can also improve on taking my time when reading my speech. Over watching the video I rushed with my speech so I need to read at a moderate speed.
7. Define two goals that you have for improving your next speech. How will you prepare to achieve them? My first goal to improve my speech is to practice more. I did not practice as much as I should and I felt like that was the reason I was stumbling with my words and became nervous. How I can achieve that is by reading my speech to others, also memorizing my speech leading up to the presentation so I would not stumble words around.
My second goal to improve my speech is having someone prof read my speech. Having another eye can catch the mistakes, so it makes it sound better. How I can achieve that is by going to the UIC writing center and having someone there look over my work.
1. What did you do well? Elaborate on why you think you did well on these aspects of your speech.
What I believe I did well on was link the proverb with the speech and told a story that relates to it. The story was about how I tried skydiving for my first time, and was nervous for it. But after doing it I ended up liking it. Also I believe I did well when it came to looking at my note cards. Only looking backs at it a couple of times and always tried to make eye contact with the audience.
2. Proverb: Did your audience learn something meaningful about you due to your choice of proverb? Was your proverb connected to a personally relevant story? I believe my audience learned something about me from my choice of proverb because I explained in detail about why I chose this proverb and what was running through my mind leading up to the event. They also learned about my fear of heights. Yes, my proverb was connected to a personal relevant story because I was going to try something for my first time and it seemed different than I thought it was. …show more content…
3.
Quality of the narrative: Was your storytelling strong and interesting? Was it easy to understand? How strong was your narrative compared to other speeches you heard this round? I thought my storytelling was interesting because not a lot of people experienced skydiving and I explained how the nervousness factored my view about skydiving, for strong I feel I could of done better by adding more to it like how I felt during the skydive and how I felt when I landed. It was easy to understand I kept the story organized in order of events. I felt mind wasn’t as strong as other speeches some of the speeches really engaged with the audience by asking them about questions and some speeches related to the audience by having very similar
experiences.
4. Language: Your language choice is an important part of your speech’s success. Were your word choices specific, descriptive, interesting, and vivid? My language choice was descriptive, I explained the story with detail but I could have done better with adding more events leading up to the end. I tried to make it sound interesting by trying to make a joke about my brother to catch the interest of my audience.
5. Delivery: Evaluate your posture, volume, vocal energy, and extemporaneous delivery. How comfortable were you while you gave your speech? What could you do to be more comfortable during your next speech? When it came to volume I spoke in a moderate voice enough for my audience to hear me. I was standing still when it came to my posture, and had I did not have a great vocal energy I could of emphasize on the important events. What I can do to get more comfortable for my next speech is to practice more, instead of practicing my speech on one person I can practice on a group of people.
6. Compared to other speeches these rounds, what aspects of your speech can you improve upon? The aspect of my speech I can improve on is better delivery, I saw I stumbled over a couple of words I forgot, so practice my speech more and memorize it better. What I can also improve on taking my time when reading my speech. Over watching the video I rushed with my speech so I need to read at a moderate speed.
7. Define two goals that you have for improving your next speech. How will you prepare to achieve them? My first goal to improve my speech is to practice more. I did not practice as much as I should and I felt like that was the reason I was stumbling with my words and became nervous. How I can achieve that is by reading my speech to others, also memorizing my speech leading up to the presentation so I would not stumble words around.
My second goal to improve my speech is having someone prof read my speech. Having another eye can catch the mistakes, so it makes it sound better. How I can achieve that is by going to the UIC writing center and having someone there look over my work.