INDEX
Amis, Martin
anxiety
Archilochus
Aristophanes: Clouds, The
Aristotle
Rhetoric
Auden, W.H.
audience
assessment
contacting members of
educated
hostility
knowledge level
looking at
plural
setting and occasion
size
voluntary vs compelled
auditorium, audience size and
authenticity
autocue
Balzac, Honoré de
Barry, Barnett: ‘simplicity is best’ speech
Beatles, The
beginning of speech
Bennett, Alan: History Boys, The
Berlin, Isaiah
Best, George
Bevin, Ernest
Bible, King James Authorised Version
Blair, Tony
blogs
body language
boredom
breathing
Brooke, Rupert
Brown, Gordon
bullet points
Cameron, David
Cannadine, David: Winston Churchill: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat . . .
cards, cue
using
Carter, Jimmy
ceremonial address
character
creating a
portrait
personal
as speaker
of speech
writer’s
Churchill, Winston
‘Battle of Britain’ speech
‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’
‘Finest hour’
House of Commons 1940 speeches
‘Scaffolding of Rhetoric, The’
Cicero
five canons of persuasive function
clichés
Collins, Major Tim
confirmation
Davies, Graham: Presentation Coach, The
Davis, David
Dead Poets’ Society
delivery
DETAIL mnemonic
detail, attention to
Dickens, Charles
diction
disinterest
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dumas, Alexandre
duration of speech
editing
Eisenhower, President
end of speech
Epstein, Jacob
ethos
expectations
eye contact
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Great Gatsby, The
formality, degree of
functions of speech
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gervais, Ricky
Gettysburg Address
Gladstone, William
graphs, use of
hall, audience size and
handouts
Heinrichs, Jay: Thank You for Arguing
Hemingway, ...
