'Persuasive Techniques: John Edwards\r'

' smooth-tongued Techniques The art of persuasion is a feature that crowd out oftentimes, work to one’s advantage. In ready to be convincing, one must use weighty techniques to convince a reader or attendee to one’s viewpoint. Old sermons, such as Jonathan Edwarfareds, â€Å"Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”, be written to drive home a centre or to bring the nefarious back to the church. Beth Chapman’s modern speech, â€Å"Stand Up for America circulate Speech”, is proposed to convince Americans to support the troops who be laying down their lives for our freedom.The two authors use the persuasive techniques of repetition, entreaty to emotion, through charged words and the appeal to reason, through common sense, in order to catch their listeners and persuade their audience that their viewpoints are correct. In â€Å"Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” Edwards uses the persuasion technique of repetition. Edwards uses â€Å"à ¢â‚¬Â¦The wrath of god…” (110) many times which maintain the pack feel uneasy and intimidated of their sinful ways.He implies that God is furious with them and has them on the edge of hell. Beth Chapman in addition uses repetition with â€Å"… benignant shields…” (1). She feels that our troops go to war to fight for our country and celebrities are elevateing that they fatality to stimulate â€Å"human shields” when they don’t do nothing. She is queer that all(a) the â€Å"human shields” are the cops, military and some other public authority while celebrities are mentioning that they want to help but they don’t in truth do anything.Repetition is used to enforce the message and or get to the main point or conception to an issue. A technique that is found in twain â€Å"Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards and Beth Chapman’s â€Å"Stand Up for America gull Speech” is emotio nal appeal. Jonathan Edwards describes â€Å"And now you nourish an unusual opportunity…” (111) by stating that the population still meet a chance to be able to celebrate his or her self and go to heaven.He uses it to make the pile in the church uncomfortable and feel sheepish about their sinful ways. He stresses that they still have an opportunity to enter into heaven. Beth Chapman uses emotional appeal with this summons â€Å"…Fact that this country has been forced into war- innocent people have lost their lives…” (1). Beth Chapman uses this quote to approach the people that soldiers do all the scary, hard work and celebrities mention that they want to serve as human shields.Another persuasive technique that both(prenominal) Jonathan Edwards and Beth Chapman use is analogy. Edwards says â€Å"And your close allow for come like a whirlwind…” (109). He compares your destruction with whirlwinds because whirlwinds are like tornad oes which cause destruction and damage. Beth Chapman excessively states â€Å"when the USS Cole was bombed, there were no movie stars guarding the ship- where were the human shields then…” (1) Her anger towards the movie stars is that they weren’t their divine service as human shields.Analogy is a technique where both Edwards and Chapman who often uses figure of speech for desired emphasis. Jonathan Edwards and Beth Chapman all employ a variety of persuasive techniques in their sermons and speeches. Their goal is to try and convince their listeners to agree with their viewpoint. Whether it is to scare churchgoers into rededicating themselves to God, as in Edward’s sermon, or to brave up for what you are fighting for the messages all assume intense emotional responses from the readers.\r\n'