Persuasion Presentation
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The PERSUASION PRESENTATION
Think about it?
What’s short
but sweet and
is attractive?
Introduce yourself
Summarise what you do
Explain what you want
Time to Deliver
Take your time
Make it conversational
Speak language that is easy to understand and follow
Be confident
Developing a Persuasive Structure
Humphrey’s “Speaking as a Leader”
Chapter 12, Pg 102
Developing a Persuasive Structure
Check your Speech Pattern
Present your Argument, not the topic, in a Pattern
Organise your argument in an easy-to-understand pattern/structure
Scale the structure : how much time? Just the facts?
Work out the structure – on paper or mentally : Visualise…
What have you decided?
Let’s hear you:
Persuasion assignment – what is your topic?
Field Report interviewees – who are you interviewing?
5 Patterns of Organisation
Reasoning
Ways
Situation and Response
Present Results and Future Prospects
Chronological
Words to Persuade Give synonyms or substitutes to these words:
Help
Started
Changed
Cut
Nice
Happy
Good
Bad
SYNONYM it but is it applicable?
Help Assist
Started Ignited
Changed Transformed
Cut Lower
Nice Pleasant
Happy Joyful
Good Wonderful
Bad Poor
Figures of Speech
METAPHOR – to compare between two things that are not alike but do have something in common.
Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks
ANTITHESIS – The definition of antitheses is a contrary or opposite opinion, concept or characteristic.
The Yin may be the antithesis of yang
More common figures of speech
ANALOGY – compares two things that are mostly different from each other but have some traits in common.
Showing a connection between two different things, writers help to explain something important about one thing by using a second thing you already know about.
Example: Bird is to nest
Hair is to comb
Life is like a race
A movie is a rollercoaster ride of emotions
A few more
Hyperbole: An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Example: I have a ton of things to do when I get home.
Irony: The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. Also, a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Example: "Oh, I love spending big bucks," said my dad
Be familiar with them
Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
>>The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.
Simile: A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
>>Roberto was white as a sheet after watching the horror movie.
