Goals of Persuasive Speaking Answers

Convincing or influencing someone to act or think in a certain way is _______________.

What was President Reagan’s goal when he said: “In the 1950s Khrushchev predicted: ‘We will bury you.’ But, in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind -- too little food.”

Another way of looking at values is what a person feels is _____________ or _____________.

All of the following are goals of a persuasive speech, except:

A persuasive speech entitled, “Vegetarianism”, is most likely trying to _________________.

The main goal of an informative speech is to convince or influence your audience to act or think a certain way.

Luis gives a persuasive speech about the Republican candidate for President. If he is giving the speech to a group of Democrats, he would have to succeed at ___________________.

What was President Reagan’s goal when he said: “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev -- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Which of the three goals of Persuasive Speaking is the hardest to achieve?

Conclusion I hope that I have enlightened you about the matters of vegetarianism, and I hope you all will make the right moral and health decisions as I have. Review the conclusion from the speaker’s persuasive speech outline. The speaker’s statement about making the “right moral and health decisions” is an attempt to __________.

In her speech, Lorenda tries to persuade her classmates to give money to The Red Cross. In order to do this, she must ____________________________________.