How is this a persuasive speech?


9/11 speech by President George W Bush , Address to the Nation September 11th 2001.




I have chosen to do an essay on the 9/11 speech by George W Bush. I have chosen this speech because it has a lot of persuasive techniques and they seem more interesting to write about. The reason why there are a lot of techniques in this speech is because George W Bush wanted to make it clear that nothing can change the way they feel about their country. The techniques that have been used in this speech are: the rule of three, emotive language, personal pronouns, statistics, positivity and there are a few quotes.
I think the reason there is the rule of three in the speech is to make the speech seem more effective and to build progression so that tension is created and then built up and then released. They do this to emphasise the point that is trying to be made. An example of the rule of three is “our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very......

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Title: How Is This A Persuasive Speech?
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