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Conor O’Gorman 11KE Commentary For my Persuasive writing piece, I chose to write a persuasive speech. I knew I needed to use certain techniques in this as my speech had the purpose of persuading and motivating into action. Firstly I needed a scenario where a speech would be used. I chose to write a motivational speech from Winston Churchill which had already been done, I wrote it without any influence from his original speech however. I chose this as I felt I could use my techniques best in this
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scenario. To persuade effectively, I used appeal to emotion, character and Reason effectively. Also known as Logos (reason), Ethos (Character) and Pathos (emotion) founded by Aristotle. The audience of my speech would have been the men of England at the time – 1940 and the Genre to persuade. “We shall not fail; Can you sit back knowing our Children will be raised as slaves?” I asked questions which I knew were provocative and would get the audience going, this particular question would appeal to emotion and reason, as no parent would want to see their child rose as a slave ...

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