Persuasive monologue checklist

Text structure checklist 

Introduction

• Grabs audience attention with a hook 

• Introduces personal issue 

• Introduces broader ethical issue 

Body

• Outlines personal issue 

• Demonstrates understanding of plot, characters and issue in the text 

• Uses evidence from original text to support personal issue 

• Refers to other character’s perspectives on the personal issue 

• Gives insight into your character’s thoughts and feelings 

• Outlines broader ethical issue the character’s personal issue fits into 

• Discusses how the personal issue led to the character’s understanding of the ethical
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issue

• Makes connections with the ethical issue by referencing other literary texts 

• Outlines the consequences of the ethical issue in society 

• Links ethical issue in society to personal issue 

Conclusion 

• Sums up the personal and ethical issues 

• Finishes with a ‘call to action’ 

Language features checklist 

Persuasive devices

• Includes persuasive devices:

o rhetorical questions, evaluative language, repetition, expert opinion, tricolon, 
evidence or examples, figurative language, symbolism and high modality

• Uses specialised language: 

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 o terms, names, words and phrases that are specific to the drama text

• Use language appropriate to chosen character:

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o hyperbole, irony, exaggeration, understatement, wordplay

Cohesive devices

• Uses text connectives to link ideas within sentences and paragraphs 

• Uses lexical (word) threads:

o references another character’s viewpoint 
o connects the issue to other literary text/s

• Uses examples and evidence from text to improve cohesion 

• When read out loud, the speech flows well and makes sense 

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