commemorate
(verb)
To honor the memory of someone or something with a ceremony.
Examples of commemorate in the following topics:
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Commemorative Speeches: Dedications and Eulogies
- Dedications and eulogies are two types of commemorative speeches that memorialize people and/or events.
- Commemorative speeches are those that celebrate and honor the memory of someone or something.
- In England, the English commemorate their fallen heroes by wearing poppies on Remembrance Day.
- The dedication is a very specific type of commemorative speech.
- Where a dedication may commemorate an event, an eulogy commemorates a specific deceased person.
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Patterns of Organization: Informative, Persuasive, and Commemorative
- The three main categories of speech are: informative, persuasive, and commemorative.
- Perhaps you are commemorating an event?
- A commemorative speech should honor, celebrate, or remember its subject.
- While informative speeches explain, educate and describe; persuasive speeches raise the stakes by using information to influence the audience; commemorative speeches assume a shared emotional connection to the subject.
- Three survivors of the Titanic, including Eva Hart, signed this postcard commemorating the tragedy.
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Choosing the Main Points
- Most speeches aim to do one of three things: to inform, to persuade, or to commemorate.
- A commemorative speech usually compiles stories and wisdom that will help the audience honor, remember, or celebrate something.
- Remember the broad purpose of your speech--to inform, to persuade, or to commemorate--as you choose your main points.