Chapter 74 use rhyme

Of all the ways to end a speech, humorous rhyming is the best.In fact, if you can find the right rhyme in the ending, it will be ideal, it will give your speech a noble and beautiful, full of mood and personality. Harry Lawood, member of Rotary International, concluded his speech at the Edinburgh Annual Meeting of the Rotary Members Delegation of the United States with the following: Some of them will send me postcards when you go home.If you don't, I'll send you one.You will be very easy to identify the postcard I send, because there is no postmark on it. (Laughter) And I will write something like this on it: The seasons change alternately throughout the year, and you know that everything in the world is never idle from birth to death, but I want to tell you that there is one thing that is eternal Unchanged, that is my deep love for you.

This rhyme not only fits Harry Lawood's personality traits, but also fits the general idea of ​​the whole speech, so it is the finishing touch.But if some rigid and restrained member of the Rotary Club also used this ending in his speech, it would probably be useless and appear ridiculous and ridiculous.As time went on teaching public speaking, it became more and more clear and profound to me that it is impossible to find a universal way to end a speech in any occasion, because it depends on time, place, and audience. Every speaker must, as St. Paul puts it, "find his own solution."

Mr. Abt, the vice-chairman of Brooklyn Motor LLC, once gave a speech to his employees on "On Loyalty and Cooperation." "A rhyme from: This is the law in the forest kingdom—this law is long and true, just like the blue sky; if the wolves living in it can abide by this law, they will prosper, otherwise, they will inevitably die. Just as the cane is forever entwined around the tree trunk, so the law in the forest kingdom is eternal-for the dog and the wolf fight endlessly and never give way. If you also want to quote a verse in your speech, you can go to the public library in your town and tell the librarian what you need, and he will help you find some useful reference books, such as Butler's " Quotations".