Oddball Outing

2023 — Online, WA/US

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Declamation, Memorized Public Address, Oratorical Analysis

Event Description:

· Please note that the final event is done in different fashions throughout the country. Any of the three below formats may be used.

o In all cases, note cards will be permitted for this tournament.

o In all cases, the time is 10 minutes. If the speaker goes over a 30 second grace period the contestant may not be awarded first place in the round.

· A. Oratorical Analysis The contestant will present a non-original speech, portions thereof, or cuttings of various speeches by one “real life” speaker.

The speech should not be from fiction, but from an actual address by a person of significance either past or present.

o The intent of this event should be the analysis (not interpretation) of the oratory or speech.

o The contestant will analyze the oratory selection(s) for approximately 50% of the presentation.

· OR

· B. Memorized Public Address with Analysis Material used in this event should include only an address which has originally been presented by the author as an address in a speaker/audience situation. The content of the address must have statewide, national or international significance.

o The speech shall consist of two parts, analysis and address. This analysis must be at least forty percent (40%) by word count of the entire presentation and cannot exceed ten percent (10%) quoted material.

o Contestant must include in his/her analysis the historical and social context of the address, the author's background, and purposes in presenting the address, and an analysis of the theme and effective use of rhetoric.

· OR

· C. Declamation Declamation requires students to select a speech thatwas delivered in public and perform an excerpt of thatspeech to an audience.

o The event is notdesigned for students to mimic the original author ofthe speech. Instead, speakers are to develop an orationthat delivers the message of the author in an original andengaging manner.

o Students will construct a shortintroduction that gives context to their performance. Ata minimum, the introduction should establish the titleof the speech, the author, and when it was delivered.

o Typically students will do a short portion of the speechbefore delivering their intro, sometimes called ateaser.Some students do the introduction and then go into thespeech. There is no preferred method; simply evaluatewhether or not the introduction gave you a solidfoundation to evaluate the speech, and fit within the flowof the speech!