Analyzing Amy Cuddy's Speech

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Your body language shapes who you are. A speech made by Amy cuddy explains on how your body language differentiates weather you are feeling powerful or powerless. On June 2012 at TEDGlobal Amy Cuddy made her speech to inform her audience about how your body language can have a meaning on how you’re feeling about your surroundings. Amy cuddy initiates her speech with an important attention getter in persuading the listener to change their body language by the end of the speech. Once I began watching this speech I was completely interested on her ideas because it is really important to know about our body language because we never notice about it.
In order to gain your audience’s attention, you will need to start off by asking a question or saying something that might relate to the listener’s experiences. Amy Cuddy began by giving a free no tech life hack that will help you along your life. Credibility is to make your audience believe about what you are saying and she established credibility by explaining how important your body …show more content…

She used supporting materials such as videos and images that were humorous and also showing about what she was talking about, also she provided oral citations of her own work. The transitions that she made to let her audience know she was going to change or explain more in depth was that she used something similar to Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. For example, she began her saying “This is what we did” “This is what happens” “This is what we find”. She ended her speech with a conclusion that closed up the circle. She went back to the what she asked in the beginning and persuade her audience to change up and it guaranteed to change the outcomes of their life. Her speech was perfectly clear and creative, she used repetition on a phrase “Fake it till’ you make it” but then she changed it to “Fake it till” you become

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