... British rule. He spread fear claiming if they did not fight Britain will take them as slaves. An effective orator uses four important devices to get his point across: rhetorical questions, restatement, repetition, and parallelism. Patrick Henry uses all four. "Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a ... even picked up the bible, let alone know the stories that go along with it. If you cannot understand the message in a biblical allusion it is not effective. Persuasive speeches attempt to convince listeners to think or act in a certain way. Similarly Jonathan Edwards used fear like ... ...

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