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My next goal with my story speech was to appeal to the pathos or emotion of the audience. Teen pregnancy, friends, and family can all be emotional topics, for this reason I incorporated all of these into my speech. The first part of establishing pathos was to for me to try to grab the audience’s interest. I was effective in doing this by asking them to think back to when they were a teenager. I did this in an effort so that the audience could place themselves in the story. When choosing the topic of teen pregnancy I wanted to strike at the audiences values. As Sarah Trenholm state in, Thinking Through Communication, “Values are general and enduring opinions about what should or should not be the case” (240). Most people have an opinion as

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