The Training Of A Public Speaker

About this eBook

Author

Kleiser, Grenville, 1868-1953

Title

The Training of a Public Speaker

Credits

Produced by Kevin Handy, Dave Morgan, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Oratory

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18277

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18277

Release Date

April 28, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE TRAINING OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER — BY
2. 2.GRENVILLE KLEISER — Formerly Instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity School, Yale University. Author of "How to Speak in Public," "Great Speeches and How to Make Them," "Complete Guide to Public Speak- ing," "How to Build Mental Power," "Talks on Talking," etc., etc. — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY — NEW YORK AND LONDON 1920 — Copyright, 1920, by — GRENVILLE KLEISER — [ Printed in the United States of America ] — Published, February, 1920 — Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.RHETORIC AND ELOQUENCE — WHAT RHETORIC IS — THE USE OF RHETORIC — THE VALUE OF THE GIFT OF SPEECH — THE ART OF SPEAKING — IS ELOQUENCE A GIFT OF NATURE? — RHETORIC AND MISREPRESENTATION — THE OBJECT OF A SPEECH — ELOQUENCE ACQUIRED BY STUDY AND PRACTISE
6. 6.THE EXORDIUM OR INTRODUCTION — THE PURPOSE OF THE INTRODUCTION — IDEAS TO AVOID AND TO INCLUDE — STUDYING YOUR HEARERS — AROUSING EMOTIONS — MATERIAL FOR THE INTRODUCTION — TWO TYPES OF INTRODUCTIONS — HOW TO SELECT THE RIGHT BEGINNING — THE VALUE OF NATURALNESS — THE NEED OF SIMPLICITY OF EXPRESSION — "TYING UP" THE INTRODUCTION
7. 7.THE NARRATION — THE TWO KINDS OF NARRATION — HOW TO MAKE THE CONCLUSION — PURPOSES OF THE NARRATION — THE QUALITIES NEEDED FOR SUCCESS — GETTING YOUR STATEMENTS ACCEPTED — THE ORDER OF THE NARRATION
8. 8.DIVISION AND ARGUMENT — THE MISTAKE OF TOO MANY DIVISIONS — DISADVANTAGES OF DIVISIONS — WHEN THE DIVISION IS DESIRABLE — PITFALLS IN ARGUMENT — ESSENTIALS OF GOOD ARGUMENT — THE BEST ORDER OF THE ARGUMENT
9. 9.THE PERORATION — RULES FOR THE PERORATION — PURPOSES OF THE PERORATION — HOW TO AROUSE EMOTIONS
10. 10.PASSION AND PERSUASION — QUALITIES NEEDED IN THE ORATOR — THE SECRET OF MOVING THE PASSIONS — THE POWER OF MENTAL IMAGERY — RULES FOR PRACTISE
11. 11.THE STUDY OF WORDS — THE PROPER VALUE OF WORDS — THE DANGER OF VERBIAGE — ACQUIRING A PRACTICAL VOCABULARY — HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORDS
12. 12.ELEGANCE AND GRACE — THE VALUE OF BEAUTY OF EXPRESSION — DEVELOPING VARIETY OF STYLE — THE CHOICE OF WORDS — THE MANNER OF DELIVERY — FAULTS OF EXPRESSION TO AVOID — USE OF VIVID DESCRIPTION — HOW TO EMPLOY SIMILES AND METAPHORS
13. 13.COMPOSITION AND STYLE — THE POWER OF SKILFUL COMPOSITION — THE ESSENTIALS OF GOOD COMPOSITION — 1. Order — 2. Connection — 3. Number — THE COMPOSITION OF PERIODS — THE USE OF PERIODS — FITTING EXPRESSION TO THOUGHT — FAULTS IN COMPOSITION
14. 14.COPIOUSNESS OF WORDS — THE RIGHT WORD IN THE RIGHT PLACE — THE VALUE OF HEARING SPEAKERS — THE ADVANTAGES OF READING — HOW TO READ MOST PROFITABLY — WHAT TO READ — QUALITIES OF CLASSIC WRITERS — Homer — Æschylus — Sophocles and Euripides — Thucydides and Herodotus — Demosthenes — Lysias and Isocrates — Plato — Xenophon — Aristotle and Theophrastus — Vergil — Cicero — Cæsar — Philosophers — Seneca
15. 15.KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-CONFIDENCE — THOROUGH INFORMATION INDISPENSABLE — THE MANNER OF THE SPEAKER — THE NEED OF GOOD DELIVERY — THE TEST OF AN ORATION — AVOIDING OSTENTATION — DO NOT ABUSE YOUR OPPONENT — THOROUGH PREPARATION ESSENTIAL
16. 16.CONCLUSION — TAKING TIME FOR STUDY — THE REWARDS OF ELOQUENCE
17. 17.ADVERTISEMENTS
18. 18.How to Read and Declaim — A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN READING AND DECLAMATION HAVING AS ITS PRIME OBJECT THE CULTIVATION OF TASTE AND REFINEMENT — By GRENVILLE KLEISER — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers
19. 19.Kleiser's Complete Guide to Public Speaking — By GRENVILLE KLEISER — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers

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