Introduction to commemorative speech
A commemorative speech is a speech given to praise someone or to celebrate something. In this speech you can pay tribute to a person, a group, an institution, or an idea. Your primary purpose in this speech is to inspire your audience and greaten their appreciation of what or whom the speech is dedicated to. When giving this type of speech you must inform you listeners of the history of the subject or of the life of the person which you are speaking of. ... And now you will listen to an example of a commemorative speech done as a eulogy to Oprah Winfrey.