"Speech in the Convention"

     The speech I chose to talk about this week is "Speech in the Convention". It takes place in the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The speaker in the speech is Benjamin Franklin, who was trying to emphasize to the audience the importance of having a constitution. He talks in a persuasive and calm manner. The audience he was trying to reach were the colonial representatives, who had come from the thirteen colonies to hear such an amazing speech that can change their lives. The purpose of his speech was to persuade the representatives to be uniform, and stick together, not drift in different directions. He wanted the people to have rights and follow them in a orderly way.His tone during the speech was calm, reasonable, and logical.
     His speech was not just an ordinary speech. He used a method called rhetorical devices, in which he got to emphasize the important parts in a different way. His speech included many rheotorical questions, where the audience was asked with a question but given the answer. The audience at that moment, was thinking about the question without even suspecting that Benjamin had already given them the answer. Franklin also compares the audience to instruments, because the audience can echo the information they hear, and for the Constitution to work, they have to be unanimous and united. Benjamin Franklin's main purpose of the speech was to persuade and inform the colonial representatives what the constitution was about, and what they had to do to get it passed and well administered.