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Review Of Winston Churchill's Persuasive Speech 'The Lights Are Going Out'
In this passage author - Winston Churchill - builds an argument to persuade his audience by using his pure opinion, mentioning about historical events. He starts the speech by mentioning about his how does he thinks about he has opportunity of speaking to the people of the United States which makes the contrast between people cannot have opportunity to speak for their country. Main points of his speech is; in simple way, Countries like United States and Britain should help Germany since they are being possessed by Nazism. To support that why should United States and Britain should help Germany; the Europe, Winston Churchill talks about how hard life does people are having in there.

The style of Winston Churchill's speech "The Defence of Freedom and Speech(The Lights Are Going Out)" is persuading speech. The tone of the passage is strong and confident about the opinion of himself which is about United States and Britain must mobilize their force in preparation to resets the military aggression of Nazi Germany and its allies. To assume the age group that
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For example in paragraph 4: Winston Churchill talks about the Communists by repeating the same phrases. "Like the Communists…" and different words containing different meaning behind those repeating words. However there are no evidence such as visible and numerical informations. In this passage Winston Churchill only used his own opinion as an evidence to persuade the audience. Also, Winston Churchill talked about the real situation about those people in Dark Ages to get more attentions from people. (Dark Ages is about racial persecution, religious intolerance, and deprivation of free speech.

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