The Training of a Public Speaker
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***Hyperlinked Table of Contents***Grenville Kleiser (1868-1935) was a North American author. He was the author of a long list of inspirational books and guides to oratorical success and personal development. Kleiser also worked as an instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity School, Yale University.In this Successful Methods of Public SpeakingModel Speeches for PractiseThe Training of a Public SpeakerTalks on TalkingPhrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for StudyThe World's Great Sermons Volume IThe World's Great Sermons, Volume 2The world's great sermons, Volume 3The world's great ...
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- THE TRAINING OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER
- 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
- GRENVILLE KLEISER
- [Printed in the United States of America] Published, February, 1920
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- THE PERORATION
- RULES FOR THE PERORATION
- PURPOSES OF THE PERORATION
- HOW TO AROUSE EMOTIONS
- PASSION AND PERSUASION
- QUALITIES NEEDED IN THE ORATOR
- THE SECRET OF MOVING THE PASSIONS
- THE POWER OF MENTAL IMAGERY
- RULES FOR PRACTISE
- THE STUDY OF WORDS
- THE PROPER VALUE OF WORDS
- THE DANGER OF VERBIAGE
- ACQUIRING A PRACTICAL VOCABULARY
- HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORDS
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CONCLUSION
- TAKING TIME FOR STUDY
- THE REWARDS OF ELOQUENCE
- ADVERTISEMENTS
- How to Read and Declaim
- A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN READING AND DECLAMATION HAVING AS ITS PRIME OBJECT THE CULTIVATION OF TASTE AND REFINEMENT
- FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers
- Kleiser's Complete Guide to Public Speaking
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