Rhetorical Practice: Write your own Speech

Above, you will find a rubric for a rhetorical speech. Using what you've learned in this module, take some time to:

1) Identify a topic or social issue that you care about

2) Write a short speech (3-5 minutes) that explains why the issue that you care about needs to more societal attention

3) Include in your speech at least four (4) literary devices such as: Parallelism, Metaphor, Rhetorical Questions, Hypophora, Chiasmus, Antithesis, Anaphora, Epistrophe, or others

4) Appeal to two (2) of three (3) literary appeals: Logos, Pathos, Ethos