Dramatic appeal comparison in "Sinners in the hands of an angry god" and " Speech in the Virginia Convention"

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Dramatic Appeal In Two Famous Speeches <Tab/>"We must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!" Emotional and logical appeal plays a great part in the "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" and the "Speech in the Virginia convention". The emotions in both of these speeches bring them to life by the use of repetition, rhetorical questions, and imagery. Patrick Henry and Jonathan Edwards both apply similar persuasive …

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…I repeat sir we must fight!" shows Henry's emphasis on how the war is important. Patrick Henry based his speech more on logical appeal. <Tab/>"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and the "Speech in the Virginia Convention" both used compared by using literary devices such as repetition, rhetorical question and imagery. Both speeches were based on different appeals but both succeed in their goals on persuading their audience.