YEARS: 9–10
To persuade an audience, speakers must present themselves as being trustworthy.
They should demonstrate common sense and knowledge. Speakers do well to demonstrate respect for their audience by showing a keenness to share their understanding of the truth.
Speakers gain credibility by appealing to the ethics and ideals they share with the audience.
In his first speech to parliament in 1940, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill uses alliteration, or the repeating of the same sound, in one of his best-known sentences.
He also uses the rhetorical device 'anthypophora', in which he poses a question and then answers it. Can you work out where?
Date of broadcast: 13 May 1940
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