Persuasive Techniques

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Persuasive Techniques
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Speech from Miracle
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Repetition Parallel Structure

• Great moments are born from great opportunity.
  And thats what you have here tonight, boys.
  Thats what youve earned here, tonight. One
  game. If we played em ten times, they might win
  nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we
  skate with em. Tonight, we stay with 'em, and we
  shut them down because we can! Tonight, we are
  the greatest hockey team in the world. You were
  born to be hockey players -- every one of ya. And
  you were meant to be here tonight. This is your
  time. Their time -- is done. It's over. I'm sick
  and tired of hearin' about what a great hockey
  team the Soviets have. Screw'em! This is your
  time!! Now go out there and take it!

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Speech from Remember The Titans
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Comparisons Similes, Metaphors and Analogies

• Anybody know what this place is? This is
  Gettysburg. This is where they fought the Battle
  of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here
  on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're
  still fightin' amongst ourselves today.
• This green field right here was painted red,
  bubblin' with the blood of young boys, smoke and
  hot lead pourin' right through their bodies.
  Listen to their souls, men
• 'I killed my brother with malice in my heart.
  Hatred destroyed my family.'
• You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead.
  If we don't come together, right now, on this
  hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just
  like they were. I don't care if you like each
  other or not. But you will respect each other.
  And maybe -- I don't know -- maybe we'll learn to
  play this game like men.

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Speech from Judgment at Nuremberg
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Rhetorical Questioning

• Ernst Janning said, "We succeeded beyond our
  wildest dreams." Why did we succeed, Your Honor?
  What about the rest of the world? Did it not know
  the intentions of the Third Reich? Did it not
  hear the words of Hitler's broadcast all over the
  world? Did it not read his intentions in Mein
  Kampf, published in every corner of the world?
• Where's the responsibility of the Soviet Union,
  who signed in 1939 the pact with Hitler, enabled
  him to make war? Are we not to find Russia
  guilty?
• Where's the responsibility of the Vatican, who
  signed in 1933 the Concordat with Hitler, giving
  him his first tremendous prestige? Are we not to
  find the Vatican guilty?
• Where's the responsibility of the world leader,
  Winston Churchill, who said in an open letter to
  the London Times in 1938 -- 1938!! Your Honor --
  "were England to suffer national disaster should
  pray to God to send a man of the strength of mind
  and will of an Adolf Hitler!" Are we not to find
  Winston Churchill guilty?
• Where is the responsibility of those American
  industrialists, who helped Hitler to rebuild his
  armaments and profited by that rebuilding?!! Are
  we not to find the American industrialists
  guilty?
• No, Your Honor. No! Germany alone is not guilty
  The whole world is as responsible for Hitler's
  Germany.

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Speech from To Kill A Mockingbird
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Flattery

• And so, a quiet, humble, respectable negro, who
  has had the unmitigated TEMERITY to feel sorry
  for a white woman, has had to put his word
  against two white peoples. The defendant is not
  guilty. But somebody in this courtroom is.
• Now, gentlemen, in this country our courts are
  the great levelers. In our courts, all men are
  created equal. I'm no idealist to believe firmly
  in the integrity of our courts and of our jury
  system. That's no ideal to me. That is a living,
  working reality!
• Now I am confident that you gentlemen will
  review without passion the evidence that you have
  heard, come to a decision, and restore this man
  to his family.
• In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of
  God, believe Tom Robinson.