Private Peaceful

Point | Evidence | Explanation | | | | Rhetorical question | . Who would you rather see marching through your streets? Us lot or the Hun? | Most authors use rhetorical questions to make the reader thin of a certain part in a book as a reader but Michael morpurgo used rhetorical question in the speech to make the reade3r think about the speech not as a reader but as a soldier | Emotive language | They’ll come marching through here burning your houses, killing your children, and yes, violating your women | Emotive language is used to make the reader feel what it was like during the first world war. | Rule of three | They’ve beaten brave little Belgium, swallowed her up in one gulp. And now they’ve taken a fair slice of France too. | This piece of evidence is showing how the germens were taking over in world war one using the rule of three | -Opinions and facts | And remember one thing, lads – and I can vouch for this – all the girls love a soldier. | Opinions and facts were used in the speech to encourage the civic to join the army also he used facts by telling them that “all the girls love a soldier” and he used opinions by saying “I’m looking for” | | | | First person | I, we, I’m, I've ...etc | Morpurgo used first person to make the reader imagine that everything in the book was happening in reality | pauses | . , - ! ...etc | Pauses are used through out the whole speech ... this is because punctuation makes the reader automatically know that the person saying the speech has stopped for the reader to think and retain the speech they’ve said | Half truth | The evidence for the half truth is all the Positivity in speech | Half true is the positive side of the speech telling the reader that the speech is focussed on a particular thing, as a example, sergeant major’s speech in private peaceful was based on joining the army and going to war. More to the point, it is commonly about persuasion. | Colloquial language | Shall