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Search the GCFL jokes database to enliven your hooks.
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Excellent suggestions for writing different types of introductions
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Organizing the body of your speech
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Using transitions or "sign-posts" to direct your listener through
the sections of your speech
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The importance of including a thesis or theme to unify your speech
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Using strong topic sentences to achieve clarity in your speech
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How to insure your ideas are unified in your speech
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Writing your full-circle conclusion
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Many great tips and examples for full-circle conclusions.
con 2
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How to End with a Rhetorical Question
con 3
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Use these tips to add variety to the length and type of sentences in
your speech
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14 ways to elaborate on your ideas in a speech
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6 Smiley Face Tricks: Hold your audience's attention with smiley
face tricks (e.g. magic 3, figurative language, repetition, expanded moments
(slo-mo), humor, hyphenated modifiers, full-circle ending)?
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Avoid these fallacies in logic when making your point.
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9 easy ways to begin a speech
intro
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Simple pointers for organizing a terrific speech.
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Avoid using expressions on this list... at all costs!
Cliches!
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Use at your own risk... Only for the most advanced speech
writers. Are you up for the challenge?
Literary Devices:
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Read some famous speeches from JFK, Lincoln, Mother Teresa, MLK, Mark
Antony, and Nehru.
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Historyplace.com
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Angelfire.com
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Comedy writing techniques a la Dennis Miller
Comedy Techniques
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