CHECKLIST FOR A PERSUASIVE SPEECH

CHECK LIST FOR SPEECH

PART ONE

Addressed audience

Acknowledged their context

Link to audience through example

Link to audience through personal context

Used quotation to introduce speech.

Outlined main idea or focus of speech.

Rule of three (Firstly, secondly or thirdly)

Use of metaphor as link.

Use of analogy as link - (is a comparison of two things, alike in certain respects, but often
dissimilar in essence) When she saw the customers jostling around the sale counter, she
was reminded of bees swarming around a honey jar.

PART TWO BODY OF SPEECH

Expansion of metaphor

Expansion of rule of three

Repetition

Use of simile/figurative language

Use of inclusive language

Use of rule of three within sentence (I came I saw I conquered) Julius Caesar

Use of antithesis (juxtapose contrasting ideas)

 Use of anaphora (emphasising words by repeating them at the
beginning of adjacent sentences or clauses).

Use of you, your, or direct address to audience.

Use of rhetorical question remember can be used to link parts of speech.

Use of signposts one, two, three reasons. Or catchphrase I have a dream

Use of connectives However, Therefore, on the one hand.

Use of emphatic tone We must, It cannot, Do not

Use of adjectives, adverbs create emotive tone.

Use of alliteration repetition of consonant letter.

Use of examples/ people or events

Use of humour pun (play on words)

Anecdotes

PART THREE CONCLUSION

A Quotation that ties up the ideas.

Reminder of main line of argument

Final appeal to emotions.

An action that is simple to achieve.

Direct appeal

Remember:
Exaggeration Commands
Positive Hard evidence (facts)
Assertion Soft evidence (opinion)
Appeal to emotions Incentive
Address Humour
Appeal to senses Repetition