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Two American politicians have made speeches about what direction they want their country to take. In this task, I am going to point out what language features and literary devices the politicians use to persuade the ones who listen to their speech. Speech 1 is made by Craig Johnson, and speech 2 is made by Susan Kilpatrick. When writing argumentative and persuasive texts, the purpose is to make someone believe you. Argumentative and persuasive texts overlap each other to a certain point, but when an argumentative text uses facts, a persuasive text also uses three different appeals. Those three appeals belong to the subject of rhetoric and they are called ethos, logos and pathos. Ethos is the appeal to credibility, and to why you should be …show more content…

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