To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch's Closing Speech | Analysis of Persuasive Devices

An opportunity to teach persuasive language devices through literature; students read and annotate Atticus Finch’s closing speech in To Kill a Mockingbird.

This resource includes:

• Editable and PDF versions of all sheets
• Options to provide students with the full speech (best printed as a short booklet) or one of six parts of the speech (best printed as a double-sided sheet)
• Suitable for individual or group work
• Every version of the sheet includes written student instructions and a table of persuasive devices. However, instead of differentiating by difficulty, the devices have been split into different style categories. This way, students can select the styles they engage with most, without ‘coasters’ opting for the simplest choice.

These categories are:

• Numerical devices
• Emotional devices
• Visual devices
• Social devices
• Logical devices

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