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• Narrative - helps tell the story and keeps the story moving.
• Narrative - include action, events, and exciting descriptive words.
• Narrative - similar to descriptive paragraphs, but they tell a story.
• Narrative - written in first person or third person perspective.
• Expository - explains something or provide instruction.
• Expository - to simplify and expose things, ideas, persons, and places through educational and purposeful facts.
• Explanatory - gives explanation on a process of how and why something happens.
• Explanatory - to explain what, how, and why a certain thing happened.
• Recount - a paragraph which retells past events or experience for the purpose of informing or entertaining the reader.
• Personal Recount - is when the writer is involved and retells an action, interest, event, or activity.
• Personal Recount - to build a relationship between the readers and the writer by providing information that the latter has been personally involved.
• Factual Recount - is a recount where the writer is not in the recount but the structure is the same as the personal recount, because it has a beginning, middle, and end.
• Factual Recount - gives useful facts and information.
• Persuasive - one in which the writer is actually giving his own opinion on a certain subject or topic and seeks to convince the reader to agree.
• Speech - communication through talking or a talk given to an audience.
• Speech - the ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gestures.
• Introduction - is the most important part of the speech.
• Body - contains all information to support the idea.
• Conclusion - should be somewhat shorter than the introduction and accomplishes two purposes: summarize main ideas and give the speech a sense of closure and completion.
• Principles of Speech Delivery

  • Articulation
  • Modulation
  • Stage Presence
  • Facial expressions, movements, and gestures
  • Audience Rapport
• Types of Speeches According to Delivery

  • Manuscript
  • Memorized
  • Extemporaneous
  • Impromptu
• Manuscript - delivers this type of speech in a word-for-word manner.
• Memorized - speech that involves commitment to remember the whole content.
• Extemporaneous - presentation of a carefully planned and rehearsed speech spoken in a conversational manner using brief notes.
• Impromptu - an unrehearsed speech where the speaker deliver it conversational and on the spur of the moment.
• Types of Speech According to Purpose

  • Informative Speech
  • Demonstrative Speech
  • Persuasive Speech
  • Entertainment Speech
• Informative Speech - aims to provide interesting and useful information to the audience on a specific topic or subject and focuses on giving significant information and factual statements.
• Demonstrative speech - It aims to instruct to do something or focuses on how something works. Commercials and training sessions are popular examples.
• Persuasive Speech - It aims to influence the audience. It is designed to convince the audience to change the way they think or to do something. The speaker acts as an advocate or supporter of an idea, belief, attitude or behavior.
• Entertainment Speech - It aims to entertain or amuse listeners by using light, funny or witty anecdotes. It provides pleasure and enjoyment that makes the audience laugh.
• Modifiers - are words that help gives more information in a sentence.
• Modifiers - can be adverb or adjective.