Modal Verbs -
- I will ensure that...
- You may find that...
- We can...
- It is important that we must...
Modal verbs show...
- Unity & bonding
- Display confidence
- Influential
- Certain
- Making a promise
- Commands respect
- Strength & determination
- Intelligence
- Sometimes creates likability
Different types of modality -
- Epistemic modality is when a modal verb is used to express the speakers opinion about a statement e.g. 'It might be true.'
- Deontic modality is when a modal verb is used to affect a situation e.g. giving permission, 'you can go when you are finished.'
Speeches - persuasive features
- Alliteration
- Facts (grounding in truth)
- Opinions (persuade)
- Rhetorical questions (thought provoking)
- Emotive Language (personal)
- Statistics (factual info)
- Tripling (emphasis)
Churchill speech -
- Uses emotive language
- Use of pronoun 'we' shows unity and bonding
- Repetition
- Modal verb 'shall' is encouraging and determined
Parallelism -
- Synonymous parallelism - second half echos first half - similar ideas to show equal importance - adds balance & rhythm
- Antithesis - establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between 2 ideas by juxtaposing them - useful in clarifying differences
- Anaphora - repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses
- Epistrophe - repetition of the same word at the end of a clause
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