Mrs Biddle-Analysing speeches

On Friday's lessons, we analyse speeches by prominent people, such as Gordon Brown and J.F. Kennedy. Today, we looked at Kennedy's speech and we discussed as a group, the techniques that were used to make it more memorable to the listener. We picked out key words, such as "tyranny" and "disease" and discussed the effect these abstract nouns, in this case, had on the reader. There were metaphors, lists as well as powerful verbs used throughout it. After highlighting certain parts of the speech, I found out that all these techniques are aimed to make the overall speech memorable to the listener, so they will ponder on what was said later on.