In Daniel Rose’s article, Message, Messenger, Audience, he draws his definition from the Ancient Greek Philosophers. He gathered from their words and success, that the key element in an effective speech is ethos, logos, and pathos, from Aristotle, Cicero’s decorum, and Demosthenes delivery. This essay will also include an evaluation of the speech, “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” by Severn Suzuki, based on these parameters.
Rose provides an excellent definition of content in effective speeches. The content itself should be persuasive in nature. As well as credible and logical, credibility being Aristotle's ethos, and logic deriving from logos. As well as having logicalical content, it must logically relate to the audience,
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If the speaker mumbles, stumbles, and/or speaks in a whisper, the message will never be heard, and therefore not understood. As Demosthenes put it deliver is “the first, second, and third requirements for a great speech.” So how is this achieved? An orator must use a ‘public speaking voice’, this could be described as a thunderous vocalization. Thunder rolls at a loud and slow pace, just as the author should be speaking slow and loud enough to articulate each word in a way everyone in the audience can comprehend. Just as thunder pauses between cracks, so must the speaker pause for suspenseful impact. If the speaker delivers the speech in a monotonous voice, the listeners will tune out or fall asleep despite the writers talents. That is why any good orator speaks with feeling, done by reflecting one’s voice. The rhetorician must demonstrate an unquestionable level of certainty in what they are saying and how they hold themselves. One should see tenacity in the lines of the orators expressions. If an orator sounds like they do not believe in themself, why would anyone else? Daniel Rose supports this ideal with the Aristotle's pathos, meaning emotion. But one does not want the audience to fear them, they want the audience to trust them, to believe them. So an orator must remember to smile at the audience and make frequent eye contact, so they feel that that speaker is giving that message to them. Sometimes charisma beats content