3. Government/politics
Persuasion
Example:
Revolutionary War speakers = Patrick
Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine
4. Formal
Honors an occasion or the speaker
Example:
Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”
-Dedicated a military cemetery during the
Civil War
5. Based on scriptural text
Provides religious or moral instruction
Example:
Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God”
6.
7. Speech or writing that tries to get the
audience to think or act in a certain way
8. The methods a speaker or writer uses to
appeal to the audience
Types: logical appeal, emotional appeal,
ethical appeal
9. Argument based on evidence (facts,
statistics, expert testimony)
10. Attempts to arouse the audience’s feelings
Uses words that evoke an emotional
response (positive or negative)
11. Directed at audience’s sense of morality
or values
Linked to trustworthiness and moral
character of the speaker
12.
13. Special patterns of words and ideas that
create emphasis and stir the audience’s
emotions
Types: repetition, restatement, parallelism,
antithesis, rhetorical questions
14.
15. 1736-1799
United colonists to fight Britain for
independence
Opposed Stamp Act
Required colonists to pay taxes on every
piece of printed paper they used
Most famous speech = “Speech in the
Virginia Convention”
Argued for armed resistance to England
Led to signing of Declaration of Independence
