WRIT2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chiasmus, Pathos
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Probably not intending for you to read the speech for someone else to read it so you have to write with their voice. Essentials of good oratory: speak to audience, repetition, deliberative vs demonstrative, deliberative: future tense, dealing with choices, telling the audience what is to their advantage. "we are better than this: demonstrative: birng the tribe together, make the complex simple, get the audience to remember one thing (eg. change, hope, together, contrasting pairs. "we do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times: chiasmus, where the grammar in one phrase is inverted. "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" But let us never fear to negotiate: rule of 3, balances the ear, completeness, clarity, credibility, 3-word slogans. Aristotle"s 3 modes of persuasion: ethos (character, often they dress like their audience.
