When Keith gave his speech of introduction about an associate who was to be the main dinner speaker, Keith told a story about this colleague getting drunk at a ball game and yelling at the umpire. According to the guidelines on how to give a speech of introduction, did Keith do the right thing?

No the Introducer should emphasize the credibility of the main speaker, not poke fun.

Explanation:

According to the guidelines on how to give a speech of introduction, Keith did not do the right thing, because Keith who is the Introducer talking to an audience. should talk more on the credibility or the ability of the main speaker, and not talk issues that are not relevant about the speaker at that particular moment.

In other words, Keith should not make a joke out of the main speaker, so that the audience or people at that place or event would not take him (the main speaker as an unserious fellow.

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it