❍ introduce a point/topic ❍ inspire the audience ❍ amuse the audience ❍ act as a warning.
When using an anecdote in a speech, keep in mind that the story has to be relevant to the point you are trying to make, and be sure to keep it short.
Hair Love (DIRECTED BY MATTHEW A. CHERRY)
Hair Love is a funny, emotional short animated fi lm about gender roles, the challenges of sickness and the loss of a parent.
Director and writer Matthew A. Cherry and producer Karen Rupert Toliver won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for this fi lm. They wanted to draw people’s attention to the Crown Act, a Californian law that bans discrimination based on natural hairstyles, in the hope that more US states would adopt the law as well.
What I will learn:
You will remember that an anecdote is a short, funny or interesting story about a real incident or person. Anecdotes can be a very useful technique in speeches. They can:
how to use a personal anecdote
Go to YouTube and look up `Hair Love | Oscar-Winning Short Film (Full) | Sony Pictures Animation’ (6:48). Watch the fi lm, and then read the speech extract on the next page, which uses the story from Hair Love as a personal anecdote.
