Assignment Evaluating Speakers
You have now read and listened to two speeches: one given by Martin Luther King and one given by George W. Bush. Describe each of these works, evaluating how the speaker’s tone, emphasis, pace, and use of rhetorical devices helps persuade his audience. Be specific and use textual evidence from the speeches as support.
Make sure to use three grade-level vocabulary words in your writing.
Your answer should be two to three paragraphs long.

Announcer two: ladies and gentlemen, following on the news given in our bulletin a moment ago, the government meteorological bureau has requested the large observatories of the country to keep an astronomical watch on any further disturbances occurring on the planet mars. due to the unusual nature of this occurrence, we have arranged an interview with noted astronomer professor pierson, who will give us his views on the event. in a few moments we will take you to the princeton observatory at princeton, new jersey. we return you until then to the music of ramón raquello and his orchestra. the passage is from the transcript of the radio adaptation of the war of the worlds by h. g. wells. instead of including expert interviews, h. g. wells uses a narrator to tell about an alien invasion that occurred a few years earlier. by including expert interviews, how does the radio broadcast change the story most effectively? o. a. it puts the story in the past tense, increasing its personal tone. o o b. it makes the broadcast sound more like a fictional story. o o c. it makes the broadcast sound like a news report. o d. it makes the story sound less believable by changing who presents the story's details.

Which is a run-on sentence? a) all of the fish that we caught were too small to keep. b) ricky changed the oil, he forgot to replace the oil filter. c) the striking patriotic design surprised the memorial planning committee. d) everyone on the harbor cruise reported feeling a little seasick and left early.

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)