What is a good attention getting opening line for a speech on the importance of college?

Answer 1

Speeches about events focus on things that happened, are happening, or will happen. When speaking about an event, remember to relate the topic to your audience. A speech chronicling history is informative, but you should adapt the information to your audience and provide them with some way to use the information. As always, limit your focus to those aspects of an event that can be adequately discussed within the time limitations of your assignment.

An introduction is the section people will remember most about the speech. For example, when you think of the Gettysburg Address, you probably think of the words "Four score and seven years ago," part of Lincoln's introduction. This introduction was so powerful, other public speakers, including Martin Luther King Jr. used the format in important speech introductions of their times.

Your introduction should establish the tone for the entire speech to come. If you are working with a persuasive speech, and your goal is to ignite the passions of audience members, you need to do so in your introduction, or you will have lost them forever.

Your speech introductions should be concise and short, but there are several tasks you need to accomplish before you can safely move on to the body.

Your first introductory task is to get the audience's attention. You need to capture their hearts and minds and convince them to listen to you for the duration of your speech.

There are lots of ways to capture an audience with good speech introductions:

• You can tell a quick story that relates to your topic in some way. Make sure that it both engages audience members and paints a clear picture for them to visualize.

• You could also ask audience members a rhetorical question as an attention-getting device. This will help to get audience members to think about your topic without actually requiring you to put forth an answer.

• Shocking statistics also work quite well as an attention getting method in speech introductions. Keep in mind, though, that your statistics should not only be based in fact, they must also have some measure of impact for audience members.

• One final standard way of grabbing an audience's attention is to use a bit of humor. A joke in good taste that relates to your topic is a great way to help the audience stay with you.

Once you have the audience on your side, you are ready to issue your thesis statement.

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