How to create imagery in your speaking performance

A mechanical unnatural rhythm and monotonous supply will not capture your listener’s interest or imagination. The variety of expressions determines how well your audience will see and feel the images you want to present to your audience. As a speech coach and drama director working with actors, speakers and trainers, I know what the fear of expressing oneself with emotion can be. Consider:

1. Start by preparing and stretching your vocal muscles and range.

These include pitch levels and vocal warmups in tone. With a few repetitive exercises, you will be amazed at the flexibility you can achieve in your vocal range. For example, try counting aloud from one to ten, giving each word a new direction, like asking a word; Or a downward feeling of perfect hearing with a low level.

For more practice, change the numbers to a word and say different accents each time, or lengthen the sound of the vowel, or alternate motion.

Separate your vocabulary with a phrase, say, "What are you doing now?" Talking with different emotions: surprise, fear, polite interest, frustration, pity, sarcasm and much more.

2. Practice speaking orally of poetry and literature.

Set your mind to the zone of what you believe is the best interpretation of the poet or writer’s thought. Choose what you think the main meaning of the words you want to convey to the audience. Then read through this message with different pitch levels. Work through one section of it at a time before putting it all together as an oral reader. Emphasize keywords and vary your tempo.

Practice with poets or literature that resonate with you and provide visual and real-life images through their words. Here are a few to use as part of oral language practice:

• Robert Frost: Pasture
• Heather Cunningham: Trees
• Any children's story
• Your favorite author

3. Capture the emotional moment to express the image and the reaction of the listener.

There are moments when we all read books or watch movies and we start to cry, laugh, sit on the edge of our seats in anticipation and feel so connected to the story, the image and that weak moment in each of us.
Analyze your audience to bring the right story, example, quote or message to your group. It speaks with your thoughts, emphasis, pauses, reflections and motions that give a variety of expressions through your voice. Mechanically annoying reading of words can be avoided; Instead, it highlights your unique ability to reflect that image to your audience.

Keep bringing out the best in you with the best of your voice!

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