Read the speech below and answer the questions that follow: 1. Literature is literally littered with lively legends.

2. Do you remember Don Quixote, an idealistic knight who fought for the rights of others and dared to

dream the impossible dream?

3. Ladies and gentlemen, while I dare not sing that famous song, I too like all of us have dreamed impossible dreams, but to make one of my dreams even remotely reachable, I needed to learn a lesson.

4. This lesson is that the change that you long for comes from love that you cultivate within you, not from your efforts to change the world.

5. At the age of 22, an accident completely changed my view of the world.

6. Before the accident, I saw the world from the height of an invincible six feet, now I see it from

the height of a wheel chair.

7. So I became short seated and recycled.

8. But I soon faced discrimination so I became the Monday Don Quixote, fighting for the rights of those with a disability.

9. Many, many times I would put on the armour of righteousness, mount my trusty grey horse,

yee-hah, lower my lance and charge into hell for my heavenly cause, daring to dream of a world where discrimination no longer existed.

10. But at other times I would retreat, exhausted, and just want to become, invisible. 11. For many years as I championed this cause, I faced this dilemma.

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12. Do I want to fit in, or do I want to stand up stand out and stand fast for who and what I’d become?

13. I become consumed by this problem and desperate for an answer, so I turned to books, coaches, meditation, you name it I did it.

14. About ten years after the accident, I found my answer where many of life’s most important questions are answered.

15. My grandmother’s kitchen was filled with aroma of freshly cooked bread, and the quiet rhythmic chopping of vegetables was the only sound to be heard.

16. On the bench, gleaming upturned jars were just begging to be filled with a world-famous

tomato sauce.

17. Well, I thought it was world-famous, my grandfather used to say it could make you swallow your tongue.

18. A splash was followed by my grandma’s silent invitation to look in the water-filled sink, one wildly bright red apple had accidentally tumbled in and was now bobbing amongst a dozen green tomatoes.

19. She said to me, “Mark, look in the sink. What do you want to be?”

20. I looked at my choice. Do I want to be the one apple, or one tomato of many?

21. And I remember thinking, ‘who looks at fruit and vegetables and gets philosophical?’

22. So how did I answer my grandma?

23. As I watched her, I finally understood her wisdom.

24. “Grandma,” I said, she stopped, turned, waited.

25. “Grandma, I so want to be... the water.”

26. She turned back to her work, and I’m sure I heard her smile.

27. She knew I had found my answer that you can’t change the world by riding around like an

idealistic knight, no, you’ve got to change it from in here, by being the water. 28. The physicists will tell you that water embraces everything, completely. 29. It doesn’t differentiate young from old, black from white, tall from short. 30. It simply embraces all.

31. And what is this water if it is not a unique definition of...love?

32. Wisdom supported by a famous writer Deepak Chopra when he says “for love to be real, it has to flow out and around that which is loved.”

33. This water is liquid love.

34. When I am the water, now, when we are the water, the need to fight the good fight no longer

exists.

35. The need to work out whether we’re the same or different no longer exists. 36. When we love with the intimacy of water, difference doesn’t exist.

37. it’s what this liquid love does.

38. In an ordinary kitchen, I learnt an extraordinary lesson.

39. One which enabled me to take off my armour and get off my horse.

40. I learnt from my grandmother that it doesn’t matter how we’re different, what matters is how we love.

41. Ladies and gentlemen, be like water!!!

END OF SPEECH

Questions:

1. Identify the general purpose of the speech.

2. Create the specific purpose of the speech.

3. Identify the attention grabber (line number and a type).

4. Find the central idea/proposition statement (line number) and identify its type.

5. Identify the summary of the speech (line number and a type).

6. Identify the conclusion (line number and a type).

7. Find three different types of supporting materials in the body of the speech (line number/s) and identify their type.

8. Find five different types of stylistic devices (line number) and identify their type.

9. Find (line number) and label 2 cases of positive motivation applied in the speech.

10. Analyze the speech from the standpoint of the Classical Rhetorical Approach to Persuasion (Aristotle’s theory). Illustrate how the presenter used logos, pathos, and ethos in the speech. One example per each component of the model. Write the line number and label the example.