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Rhetorical delivery: voice, tone and gesture
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- 1Delivery is divided into two things- control of the voice
- physical gesture control - 2what does Ad Herennium advise when it comes to delivery?- careful control of pace
- variation of tone of voice - 3what are the three different tones?- conversational tone
- tone of debate
- tone of amplification - 4conversational tonerelaxed and close to conversational speech. Good for the exordium.
- 5tone of debateenergetic and suited for both proof and refutation.
- 6tone of amplification- either moves the audience to pity or to wrath.
- 7John Bulwerhe was the first person to make a systematic attempt at categorizing hand gestures. His book 'Chirologia'.
- 8HypokrisisThe Greek word for delivery. It is also the word for acting. Both rhetoric and acting are nature by art modified.
- 9delivery in written rhetoric- the details of font, type size and pagination affect how readable a piece of writing is, what tone it conveys and what ethos it has.
- 10how is delivery in written rhetoric different from spoken rhetoric?- in written rhetoric the writer is remote from his audience.
- in spoken rhetoric reading the audience is a constant process. - 11how do most unnacustommed to speaking in public sound?particularly when nervous, they talk to fast.
- 12what's best when it comes to pace?slowing it down. A comfortable speed is 110 words per minute. Its a shade lower than in ordinary speech.
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