Pinecrest Open
2021 — NSDA Campus, NC/US
Original Oratory
Abbreviation
OO
Format
Speech
Entry Fee
$15.00
Entry
1 competitors per entry
Event Description:
Oratory is a speech of up to 10 minutes (with a 30 second grace period) that must have been composed by the student delivering it and must be memorized. The purpose of the oration should be to inform and/or persuade (convince, stimulate, actuate, etc.). It may be presented as a problem solution. The oration must be primarily composed and delivered from the standpoint of the speaker. Visual and audio-visual aids are not permitted. No more than one hundred and fifty (150) words of the oration may be direct quotations from any other speech or writing. Extensive paraphrasing of any other source is prohibited as well.