Political speeches: Language features
Parts of speech
Parallel sentence structure
Repetition
Nouns
Emotive language
Hyperbole
Allusion
Figurative imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Personifiation
Tone
Informal / conversational tone
Sound devices
Sibilance
Alliteration
Assonance
Adjectives
Verbd
Adverbs
1st person
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Other features: Audience; Purpose; Context
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Audience
Purpose:
To persuade To gain support
To inform
Context: Who Time - When Place - Where Historical Geographical Political
Social