Choose a topic to convince your parents of and write a very short speech that can be delivered in 1 min. Write 3 versions of the speech using each mode of persuasion.

SUBJECT:

The subject of this speech is to persuade my parents to allow me to see a movie on the weekend.

PATHOS:

Mum and Dad, I‘m going to address the fact that you will not allow me to see SANCTUM this weekend with my friends. This is an outrage! You can’t be serious as to try to stop me from socialising and having a good night. Even though it may be late, haven’t you had late nights? Of course you have! So why can’t it be the same for me? I’m old enough and I know my way around the shops. So finally I believe that if you are good parents, you will allow me to go see the movie.

LOGOS:

Mum and Dad, I‘m going to address the fact that you will not allow me to see SANCTUM this weekend with my friends. Why would you even want to stop me from seeing this movie? You yourselves are always telling me to socialise and see my friends more. This is doing just that. You can’t try and stop me from doing exactly what you’ve wanted me to do for so long. That would be contradictory to your original statement. Where is the logic in that? So honestly, you’ve wanted me to do this for so long, why try to stop me from doing it in the first place?

ETHOS:

Mum and Dad, I'm going to address the fact that you will not allow me to see SANCTUM this weekend with my friends. Think of the benefits that could come from this. First of all there’d only be two children to watch over, and you've continuously said that I’m a young man and not a kid any more. You say that I need to improve my social skills and receive some level of independence. Well this will allow me to do these things. I will be hanging out with friends, I will prove that I can do things by myself and there is also one less child to worry about.