Question

Niamh lived in New York City in 2001, so she remembers in detail what the city was like during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11 of that year. She decides to give a speech about September 11 and its meaning to her. Niamh is giving an informative speech that fits into what category?

Answer 1

In the given context the informative speech of the speaker fits into event category.

Explanation:

Speech can be categorized into different categories like informative, descriptive, narrative, subjective etc.

• In informative speech speaker mainly point the place of occurrence, date of the incident and consequences of event in brief.

• In descriptive speech narrator describes the whole event thoroughly from top to bottom.
• In narrative speech speaker narrates the whole story in his own approach. And
• In subjective speech speaker only highlights the main points that needs to be remembered. In informative speech core of the theme is event based.