commemorate

Examples of commemorate in the following topics:

• Commemorative Speeches: Dedications and Eulogies

  • Dedications and eulogies are two types of commemorative speeches that memorialize people and/or events.
  • Commemorative speeches are those that celebrate and honor the memory of someone or something.
  • In England, the English commemorate their fallen heroes by wearing poppies on Remembrance Day.
  • The dedication is a very specific type of commemorative speech.
  • Where a dedication may commemorate an event, an eulogy commemorates a specific deceased person.

• Patterns of Organization: Informative, Persuasive, and Commemorative

  • The three main categories of speech are: informative, persuasive, and commemorative.
  • Perhaps you are commemorating an event?
  • A commemorative speech should honor, celebrate, or remember its subject.
  • While informative speeches explain, educate and describe; persuasive speeches raise the stakes by using information to influence the audience; commemorative speeches assume a shared emotional connection to the subject.
  • Three survivors of the Titanic, including Eva Hart, signed this postcard commemorating the tragedy.

• Choosing the Main Points

  • Most speeches aim to do one of three things: to inform, to persuade, or to commemorate.
  • A commemorative speech usually compiles stories and wisdom that will help the audience honor, remember, or celebrate something.
  • Remember the broad purpose of your speech--to inform, to persuade, or to commemorate--as you choose your main points.