AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1, Paper 2
Language shaped to persuade or influence an audience, using devices such as questions, repetition and contrasts.
Revise: ClaudioHis extended verse speech uses questions, commands and the language of evidence and witnesses. This is public rhetoric: he tries to persuade the congregation that his interpretation is certain. The formal control of his language makes the accusation more forceful, but the audience knows that its foundation is false.
- Revise: Context
The art of using language to persuade an audience.