Effective oratory is often used to establish a relationship between the orator and the listener/audience. What techniques do they use to do this?
You should write 200-300 words.
Use specific examples from the NZFA resource DVD.
Points could include:
- Paralinguistic techniques such as gestures – pointing etc
- Looking straight at camera for direct address
- Use of pronouns – "we" / "our"
- Anecdotes
- Use of humour
- Allusions
- Use of statistics
- Emotive language
- Connotative meanings of words
- Innuendo
- Euphemisms
- Rhetorical questions
- Emphatic/exclamatory statements
- Comparative constructions
- Informal language – contractions, ellipsis, colloquialisms
