Speech Models: Effective Construction and Expression

The study of speech examples is recognized as a most effective way of learning and cultivating the art of oratorical composition. There is place, then, for a text which, like this one, is occupied chiefly with models illustrating each important point of rhetoric, and giving only brief comments on the precepts governing speech.There seems to be a place, too, for a book of models taken entirely from Catholic sources across time. Catholic students of speech, no less than of Sacred Oratory, are in need of models which represent true Catholic teaching as well as good rhetorical principles.It is the hope of the compilers that this book will be of aid to all young Catholic men and women who are striving to perfect themselves in speech; that it will acquaint them, moreover, with the treasury of great oratory that was and is within the Church; that it will inspire them to give fitting form to the vocal expression of their faith.This Catholic high school or college text includes numerous examples of speech to demonstrate style, diction, grammatical and rhetorical arrangement, narration, description, exposition, argumentation, and persuasion. The varying kinds of speech are given through models of deliberative speaking, judicial speaking, demonstrative speaking, and pulpit oratory.