Rhetorical criticism speech topics are often based on a classic pattern for judging and defining the central idea. Here are suggestions for public speaking on famous speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., Steve Jobs, and a girl who get the world silent. Scientists like Watson and Hauser suggest in their Rhetorical Criticism analysis to take these stages in the process to write on rhetorical criticism speech topics. I have changed them somewhat to meet your public speaking requirements. So, take one of the examples below and answer the questions:
What is the goal of the speech topics? What does the speaker try to communicate?
How does she/he seek to get action, what are her/his most wanted effects?
What is the original setting or background of the performance?
Is their an inconsistency/difference between the public speaker and audience?
What are the arguments or proof?
What assumptions are stated or assumed, on which reasoning pattern?
How is the public speaking speech structured, how does she/he construct theme, thesis and conclusion parts?
What figures of speech are used. What effects?
What is the overall effectiveness of the speakers' strategy?
First, watch the video and read the whole text;
Secondly, return to the pattern above and start writing your speech, or essay, while taking the steps as described;
Thirdly, show the video in speech class and deliver your talk afterwards. That easy! :-)
4 Rhetorical Criticism Speech Topics Examples
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (3 April 1968, Memphis, Tennessee). His last public speech about civil rights, because Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated the next day.
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Source: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) The Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish Commencement Address was given in 2005 at the Stanford University. He persuades the audience to pursue dreams and see opportunities in failures. Ideal for a public adddress on rhetorical criticism speech topics.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Source of this rhetorical criticism speech topics sample: Stanford University
This is the girl who silenced the world for minutes in 1992 during the Rio de Janeiro conference about climate changes... Can you write a rhetorical criticism speech topics talk about it?
A hit on YouTube. Whatch it, show it to your audience and deliver a rhetorical criticism speech topics presentation about her thoughts and the effects on decisionmakers.
Finally, for your rhetorical criticism speech topics inspriration one of the funniest speeches at a funeral: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by British comedian John Cleese:
Graham Chapman (member of the Monty Python comedians) died October 4, 1989. Leader John Cleese delivered a funny memorial eulogy for his friend at a memorial service, nationwide broadcasted live. He starts very serious, but...
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