1. Effective Speech Tactics

2. allusions references to familiar things

3. repetition repeated use of words or phrases

4. quotation use of another’s exact words

5. Alliteration repeated use of consonant sounds

6. parallelism repeated use of similar words, phrases, or constructions

7. rhyme use of words with the same sound(s)

8. imagery & description vivid depiction of people, places, and/or actions

9. comparisons (including similes) use of very similar or different things (to show contrast)

10. metaphors direct comparisons based on common quality

11. facts & statistics pieces of information from objective study

12. rhetorical questions questions to think about, not respond to

13. pre-emptive strikes answers to objections before they arise

14. true stories accounts of things that happened in others’ lives

15. personal experiences accounts of things that happened in own life

16. hypothetica l situations accounts of things that might happen – “What if...” stories

17. possible solutions suggestions on how a problem might be solved or avoided

18. visual aids pictures or objects