LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       To C.C.S.

       PUBLIC SPEAKING

       CHAPTER I

       SPEECH

       CHAPTER II

       THE VOICE

       CHAPTER III

       WORDS AND SENTENCES

       CHAPTER IV

       BEGINNING THE SPEECH

       CHAPTER V

       CONCLUDING THE SPEECH

       CHAPTER VI.

       GETTING MATERIAL

       CHAPTER VII

       PLANNING THE SPEECH

       CHAPTER VIII

       MAKING THE OUTLINE OR BRIEF

       CHAPTER IX

       EXPLAINING

       CHAPTER X

       PROVING AND PERSUADING

       CHAPTER XI

       REFUTING

       CHAPTER XII

       DEBATING

       CHAPTER XIII

       SPEAKING UPON SPECIAL OCCASIONS

       CHAPTER XIV

       DRAMATICS

       APPENDICES

       APPENDIX A

       Additional Exercises in Exposition

       APPENDIX B

       Additional Exercises in Argumentation

       INDEX

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PUBLIC SPEAKING

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CHAPTER I

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SPEECH

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      Importance of Speech. There never has been in the history of the world a time when the spoken word has been equaled in value and importance by any other means of communication. If one traces the development of mankind from what he considers its earliest stage he will find that the wandering family of savages depended entirely upon what its members said to one another. A little later when a group of families made a clan or tribe the individuals still heard the commands of the leader, or in tribal council voiced their own opinions. The beginnings of poetry show us the bard who recited to his audiences. Drama, in all primitive societies a valuable spreader of knowledge, entertainment, and religion, is entirely oral. In so late and well-organized communities as the city republics of Greece all matters were discussed in open assemblies of the rather small populations.

      Every great epoch of the world's progress shows the supreme importance of speech upon human action—individual and collective. In the Roman Forum were made speeches that affected the entire ancient world. Renaissance Italy, imperial Spain, unwieldy Russia, freedom-loving England, revolutionary France, all experienced periods when the power of certain men to speak stirred other men into tempestuous action.

      The history of the United States might almost be written as the continuous record of the influence of great speakers upon others. The colonists were led to concerted action by persuasive speeches. The Colonial Congresses and Constitutional Convention were dominated by powerful orators. The history of the slavery problem is mainly the story of famous speeches and debates. Most of the active representative Americans have been leaders because of their ability to impress their fellows by their power of expressing sentiments and enthusiasms which all would voice if they could. Presidents have been nominated

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