Unit II: Speech Assessment

You and your partner need to choose three speeches from the Online Speech Bank. Both of you should read through the speeches and find five persuasive techniques. You have to use a total of TEN different techniques, in other words you can not use the same five techniques for the three speeches. This is exactly what you will be doing for your test next week.

Website: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

Persuasive techniques:

Thesis

Supporting Arguments

Loaded Language

Rhetorical Questions

Anecdote

Analogy

Metaphor

Concession to the Opposition and Refutation

Deductive Reasoning

Paraphrase

Memorable

Parallelism

Repetition

Allusion