Commemorative Speech Template

1. Speech
Commemorative Speech Template

2. Commemorative Speech
Objectives:
1. Create a speech that is short, eloquent, and
commemoratively inspiring to all.
2. Commemorate or pay tribute to a person, group,
institution, thing, idea or event.
3. Organize your thoughts and ideas so as to inspire your
audience.
4. Use the richness and beauty of language to commemorate
and inspire. 
5. Learn to effectively use a Manuscript when delivering a
speech.

3. Ideas to Focus on
Focus on the values of life and past, present, and future of
society.
 For instance hope, trust, kindness, courage, loyalty,
wisdom, disappointment, camaraderie, dignity, success, and
tradition are good public speaking speech topics.

4. Commemorative Speech
A commemorative speech is a ceremonial address of honor
and celebration of the values of a person, group, institution,
a place, an event, an idea or a subject.

5. So, it's more than a tribute, that is a testimonial that
celebrates achievements or essential accomplishments. By
commemorating you go an important step further.

6. The best commemorative speech does not inform, but
rather they inspire, commemorate or pay tribute in
order:
To give the audience hope for the future.
To uplift the listeners' feelings and emotions.
To heighten their admiration for the person, group, institution,
event or idea being praised.
To express feelings, arouse sentiments.

7. Eulogy
A special form is the eulogy. These commemorative speech
topics praise and honor a person who died.

8. Use this list of commemorative speech topics to tickle your
imagination. It will help you effectively to sort out, organize
and outline your thoughts and ideas. Answer all the questions
that are appropriate to you. And apply the answers to your
subject, the occasion and the feelings of the public. In fact it
is an commemorative speech example.

9. 1. Start with a significant aspect of
your subject to commemorate.
a person - Describe how the person you honored always
takes care of the pets in your neighbourhood a place -
Describe the natural world wonder you commemorate, and
how it inspires thousands of visitors to protect nature in their
local community
an event - Describe how the Superbowl unites many fans,
what happens at the big day, what it means to them.
a group - Describe that the baseball team being honored
became champion because of their co-operation.

10. So, what significant aspect of your subject represents or
symbolizes an important value in our own lives? Maybe it
will help if you ask yourself the basic who, when, what
where, why and how questions about your subject to figure
it out. That is also a fine way to develop the other suggested
commemorative speech topics below.

11. 2. Explain why you are the speaker and
want to pay a tribute.
Mention the reasons and the character of the occasion in your
commemoration speech.
Why does your subject deserves to be honored?
Why this kind of tribute?
Why at this moment, why at this occasion?

12. 3. Refer to the particular contributions,
achievements or merits.
Give concrete examples. E.g. What has been accomplished,
in what way?

13. 4. Build in commemorative speech topics
describing why the efforts, impressions,
achievements are such a success.
Who or what will benefit?
Why is this way of thinking or acting valuable to us?

14. 5. Link your examples to the
morality, taste, beliefs, opinions
and sentiments of your audience.
These speech topics are the heart of your commemoration
address. What specific values can we distract and which ones
make the difference?
How can we also apply the values?
Why do we need to apply them too?

15. Describe the values in such a way that all attendees can
empathize and re-experience these feelings.
If the commemorated subject is a person, then ask yourself
for example: what can we learn of the subjects' way of
approaching things in his personal or professional life?
Celebrate the persons special manner. If the subject for
instance is a war monument, then ask yourself, what values
does this monument stand for?
What are we commemorating at this place and why?

16. 6. Now, make a summarizing
transition.
Link the previous commemorative speech topics of the
important values to the common feelings and thoughts that
you and the audience share.
Illustrate them with a short story, anecdote, facts or a
testimony of a symbolic personal experience with the
subject.

17. 7. Conclude with a memorable
summary of the commemorative
speech topics you have been talking
about.
Help the audience members to remember your main
message. Especially emphasize the values that are being
celebrated in you talk. Use a attention getting oneliner that
captures the whole idea.

18. Language and the style of the
presentation
1. Use expressive and elegant language.
2. Formulate in an eloquent serious style.
3. Avoid exaggerating expressions in your commemorative
speech topics.

19. The second is utilizing stylistic devices to enhance the
imagery, rhythm, and creativity of the speech.

20. Antithesis
"If you fail to prepare–You prepare to fail.”
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But never let us fear to
negotiate"

21. Alliteration
"You want your speech to be a clear, concise, creative,
commemoration."

22. Parllelism
"Our mission is to right wrong, to do justice, and to serve
humanity"-- the use of parallel ideas in succession.

23. Alliteration and Parallelism
"The task is heavy, the toil is long, and the trials will be
severe"

24. Simile
"Her eyes were like limpid pools."
"The Red Man has ever fled the White Man, as the morning
mist flees before the morning sun"

25. Metaphore
"Your eyes are the windows to your soul.“
 "My Mother was the spoonful of sugar that sweetened life's
bitter medicine"

26. Repetition
using the same phrase over throughout your speech or in
succession as in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"
speech and the "I have a dream" phrase.