Public Speaking 911 Blog

Just noticed the use of the epistrophe in Nancy Pelosi’s speech to the National Democratic Convention.  An epistrophe is the opposite of the anaphora, which I wrote about earlier.  An anaphora “is repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, Read more

When you are preparing for a speech, the utmost in your mind should be how to grab audience attention. It does not matter whether your speech is to sell an idea, a product or to get people to do something. At the end of it, you need to have convinced them of something.