How-to speech

In my speech I did several things that were overall well. I think that me knowing my items and being prepared worked well. Me knowing that I could do my presentation inside the class room also helped. Several people had trouble giving their speech because the classroom has limited space and I am happy I was not one of those people.


I also did several things that were not so good in my speech. Early in my speech I forgot to explain several things so when I came to the middle of my speech I found myself back tracking to explain something I should have already talked about.

Informative speech

The biggest thing I think I need to work on would be going over my speech. Sometimes in my speech I would say something that did not make sense. This is because my speech was not a prepared as it should have been. So what I need to work on the most would most definately be preparing my speech.

Brownbag Speech

In my speech I saw several things that I could have done much better. The first was that I was chewing gum. I have no idea what I was thinking but at least I wasn't chomping on it during the speech. I also could have rehearsed my speech more thoroughly. There was several time where I stopped and I didn't know what to say next. Overall I think I did a pretty good job. I looked confident, I was laughing and making jokes, and I was loud enough for everyone to hear.

What is black humor, hyperbole, play on words, and situational irony?

Let us start with black humor. Black humor is a joke or comment that is about a certin subject usually not talked about publicly.

"Hey, wasn't the Bible written by the same people who said the world was flat?"

This quote is black humor because it is making fun of religion. Religion is usually a serious and controversial subjuct that people defend so when somebody pokes fun at it it can be taken the wrong way.

A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration.

These are examples of hyperbole because they do not literally mean what they are saying. They are using extreme exaggeration to explain what they are trying to say.

Now for situational irony. Situational irony is what you will find in an everyday sitcom. It usually has the usual characters and some type of situation that is humorus. It does not need to be a show though. For an example: Bill Gates enters into a competition and ends up winning a computer. This would be situation irony because obviously Mr. Gates does not need a computer.

A play on words is where words are used that sound like one thing but mean another.

In this picture the horse is asking is the stick has ever seen a horse fly. You would think he means the insect but what the horse is literally asking if the stick has seen a horse fly.

Evan.

My name is Evan. I was born in Cincinnati but at age 3 I ended up moving to Dallas, Texas. I lived there for 6 years but my dad ended up getting transferred to Chicago. I lived there for a short, about 6 months, time. So my family then moved backed to Dallas, only about a 5 minute drive from our first house. We left because Chicago's schools were nothing compared to Dallas' schools. I stayed in Dallas for another 6 years before moving to Anderson before freshman year. I have lived here now for 3 and a half years. Music is pretty much my life. I've been playing guitar for about 6 years now. That's pretty much it.