Question

Because everyone knows that a persuasive speaker's goal is to influence the audience's beliefs, ethics are less important in persuasive speaking than in other kinds of speaking.

A. True
B. False

Answer 1

Answer:

False.

Explanation:

The persuasive speech is the speech given to persuade the audience about certain things.

There are three types of persuasive speeches:

Ethos, pathos, and logos.

Ethos is an appeal to ethic in which the audience needs to be persuaded about the character and credibility of the speaker.

Pathos is an appeal in which the speaker convinces his/her audience based on emotions or feelings.

Logos is an appeal in which the speaker gives logical reasoning to his appeal.

So, according to the definition provided ethics are also important in a speech.

So, the answer is false.