Rhetorix: The Recitation
Competition
Eloquence and the art of speaking is a very important skill. This event tests your speaking skills. The aim is to check how well you can communicate the text or words through your speech using voice modulation, gesticulation, tone etc.
In past the following things very given importance when it came to speaking: "Articulation, Inflections, Accent and Emphasis, Instructions for Reading Verse, Voice Control, and Gesture" We would pricesely check you on the following parameters.
Guidelines:
Eloquence and the art of speaking is a very important skill. This event tests your speaking skills. The aim is to check how well you can communicate the text or words through your speech using voice modulation, gesticulation, tone etc.
In past the following things very given importance when it came to speaking: "Articulation, Inflections, Accent and Emphasis, Instructions for Reading Verse, Voice Control, and Gesture" We would pricesely check you on the following parameters.
Guidelines:
- The participants will have to choose a piece that they wish to elocute. It may be a any excerpt from a play or a prose piece written by William Shakespeare.
- The recitation should be about 5 minutes long and it is expected that the participants will memorize their pieces.
- The contestants will be judged based on both manner and appropriateness of expression in the context of the selected piece. The top one-fourth will proceed to the next round.
- In the final round, pieces of text will be given to the contestants and they are allowed to read from the handouts given to them. Here the chosen pieces will be purposefully made drab and apparently uninteresting. The challenge will lie in making it still sound attractive to the listener.
- Impression on the listeners is an important part of the whole presentation.
Please Note: For the first round only pieces from any of Shakespeare's works are allowed.
It is advised that you choose a piece that suits your strengths. The vast collection of Shakespeare's work give you umpteen choices to pick from all moods like comic, anger, despair, guilt and so on…
Once you have zeroed on a piece practice it well.
