Question

Angeline is preparing an oral presentation about the need for an alternative to the town landfill. What is the best technique or strategy she can use to motivate and inspire her audience to take action?

She can speak respectfully in order to persuade her audience to take action.
She can use repetition in her conclusion to emphasize her request to take action.
She can use words that appeal to the logic of taking action, rather than to emotions.
She can speak loudly to convince her audience of the importance of taking action.

Answer 1

She can use repetition in her conclusion to emphasize her request to take action.

Repetition (anaphora/epistrophe) makes the call-to-action memorable and rouses the audience at the emotional and rhetorical level—more effective for motivating people than just speaking loudly or relying solely on logical arguments. Speaking respectfully is also good, but repetition in the close is the strongest single strategy to inspire action.