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ExaggerationYou can create humor during your speech by exaggerating certain things in your presentation. You will learn more about this skill during in my public speaking book. When using exaggeration in your presentation you are basically doing a caricature with your words. By using these words you "paint" a picture to the audience that helps them focus on the points you are presenting to them. I did a speaking program one time on Secretaries Day for a large insurance company. I was making a point about how hectic it always was for the secretaries and said, "You're answering the telephone, the fax machine is ringing, you're making copies, and you're filing every policy clear back to 1910." The secretaries could all relate to each item I said, because they obviously did lots of filing, but certainly NOT as far back as 1910. Exaggerating this date was funny to them and definitely made the point that they always had lots of work piled up. The key to using exaggeration is to inflate or deflate whatever you are talking about so much that it is obviously an exaggeration. In the last example you wouldn't want to use the year 1999 if you were doing the talk in 2000 because it is very likely that an insurance company would really be working on a file for a year or more. That wouldn't be funny to them. Of course, who am I to tell you what is funny. I spent two terms in the third grade . . . Truman's and Eisenhower's. hahahahahahaa My public speaking book teaches you how to use exaggeration to make your point and presentation memorable.
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