Your closing remarks are your last chance to drive home your ideas.
The conclusion has two major functions
To let the audience know you are ending the speech.
To reinforce the audience’s understanding of, or commitment to the central idea.
Crescendo ending
This is a conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Dissolve ending
This is a conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step by step to a dramatic final statement.
The second major function of a conclusion is to reinforce the audience’s understanding of or commitment to the central idea.
Summarize your speech
Explicitly restates the central idea and main points one last time
End with a quotation
one of the most common and effective devices to conclude a speech. When you run across a brief quotation that so perfectly captures your central idea, keep it in mind as a possible conclusion.
Make a dramatic statement
Devise your dramatic statement to give your conclusion. Some speeches have become famous because of their powerful closing lines
Refer to the introduction
Give your speech psychological unity to conclude by referring to ideas in the introduction. This applies only to a particular type of persuasive speech.
