Good persuasive speeches utilize rhetorical devices to unconsciously persuade the audience. Some of these devices include using quotations and allusions, imperatives that command the audience to act, inversions of typical sentence structure, archaic language, grammatical repetition of words or phrases, rhetorical questions, hyperbole to emphasize a point, and familiar cliches. These rhetorical devices serve to influence the audience at a subconscious level when used effectively in persuasive speeches.

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Persuasive
Contain
Speeches
Good persuasive speeches utilize a number of
rhetorical devices which
serve to persuade the audience
at an unconscious level.
Quotations / Allusions
Ask not for whom
the bell tolls.
Imperatives
Go! Spread the
message
far and wide.
Inversions
Ask not what your
country
can do for you…
Archaisms
Go forth
unto this
nation...
Grammatical
Repetition
One small
step for man,
one giant leap
for
mankind…
Rhetorical
Questions
Who knows
what untold
damage this
has caused?
Hyperbole
Millions
upon
millions will
live to
regret this
day.
Cliches
In the fullness of time;
as solid as a rock.