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Simply Speaking...Selling Yourself & Your Ideas E-Zine
   
        Volume 8, March, 2005 
      Published by Lenny Laskowski 
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The Elements of Language - Part I of IV
   from "10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking"
     (Chapter 6 - page 123-124)  
  Copyright, Lenny Laskowski     

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   During the next four issues I will be addressing the
language of giving speeches.  Speech language includes
elements such as the following:

- alliteration
- cliches
- metaphors and similes
- imagery

Your speeches can contain one, two or all of these styles.

   How you incorporate the various language components
depends on your own speaking style and comfort level.
   
   As a professional speaker, I write speeches for
business professionals, but I have also been hired to
write speeches for brides, bridegrooms, best men, teachers,
administrators, politicians, and even ministers.

   Although the written style for each is unique, all my
clients ask that their speeches come across as
conversational.  Being able to write conversationally
can be a challenge, but with a strong working knowledge
of the range of language elements at your disposal, it
does get easier.

   During the next few issues of this E-Zine I will be 
discussing each of these elements along with some tips
to help you incorporate them into your speeches.  Avoid
overuse of these elements because they can become 
distractions for your audience and may steer them away
from listening to your message.

   An aliteration is a sentence or long phrase in which
each of the words begins with the same letter.  Two
common alliterations most of you are familiar with are, "She
sells seashells by the seashore" and "Peter Piper picked 
a peck of pickled peppers."  Alliteration can be used to
make a point memorable in your presentation or to 
convey dramtic or poetic nuances.  This technique also
gives the listener a catchy phrase to remember a
particular message.  

   The following examples use this repeated letter
technique.  Think about how you can use alliteration
in your speeches and presentations.  Have fun with it.

   In my workshops I use an alliteration I call the nine
P's: 

Prior Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance of the
Person Putting on the Presentation.

Another alliteration I use represents the three R's of
motivation:

 - Recognition
 - Reward
 - Reinforcement

Exercise:

Come up with your own aliteration which can be used
in your next speech.
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In Part II of this series I will be addressing the use
of cliches. 
   
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Until next issue!


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