Making the speech memorable
o Solid introduction
o Story-telling
Style
o Correctness
o Clarity
o Evidence
o Propriety
o Ornateness (rhetorical devices) (4-5 used)
I need to
o Use rhetorical devices such as repetition, parallelism, alliteration, personification,
rhetorical questions, oxymoron, metaphor, simile, etc.
o Use correct grammar
o Use clear sentences
Feel free to add/delete/edit sentences. Also, you can add rhetorical devices too!
Title?
I’m here today to say that women can stop gender inequality in the workforce.
Women has been facing gender inequality in the workforce for an endless number of years (hyperbole).
It has been something like this: a woman and a man apply for a job, the two having the same skills and
experiences, graduated with the same degree with the same grades.
How can two people be any more similar? (Rhetorical question) Is it not obvious that they’re almost
exactly the same? (Rhetorical question) Apparently they are not the same. At least not in the eyes of the
employers. In their eyes, they see a small big (oxymoron) difference- gender. The story is pretty
predictable (alliteration) from here. The man is hired.
That’s wrong, that’s unfair and that’s something we all know. We talk of affirmative action everywhere
we go, yet nothing is said about this injustice act. It is now 2015, it is a year that civilized people need to
talk out the truth and give to Caesar what belongs to him (allusion/metaphor).
The only reason gender inequality still stands here (personification, alliteration) is because women are
not attempting to stop it. When women were not allowed to work at all, they spoke up, and they are
now allowed to work. The same can be done for gender inequality in the workforce. If women take
action, than they can stop gender inequality in the workforce.
We need to speak up and we need to stop this, because we can. We can’t have one woman, we can’t
have some women, but we need all women to speak up. Together, women can stop gender inequality. It
is time to call a spade a spade and not a spoon, so from this moment onward, let it be the beginning of
the end (paradox) of gender inequality in the workforce.
