literary devices speech

In English class today we went over speeches that students had written. The speeches had to have a speaker, audience and purpose and it could be absolutely anything; and they had to include at least 4 literary devices that help improve the purpose of the speech. I personally chose to argue about the dress code. My speaker was myself, my audience was members of Sparta high school and the purpose of this speech was to convince that the dress code is very illogical. The literary devices I used was euphony, anaphora, and personification. Euphony is where words have a positive connotation and make something sound nicer. Anaphora is the repetition of a phrase in the beginning of a sentence and shows the importance of what is about to be said. Personification is when you compare a non-living thing with human characteristics and makes something seem more comfortable and familiar.
The first speech we read was Ian's speech which consisted of many different literary devices including Anaphora, metaphor, cacophony, and euphony which all evolved his argument and made it more credible. His speaker was World War 2 British soldier in truck, the audience was World War 2 British regulars in trucks, and his purpose was win the war by teatime. Another example of a speech that the class read and we went over it together was by Anna. The literary devices she used was anidiplosis, euphony, apostrophe, and simile. She was speaking as a 4 year old talking to other 4 year olds trying to convince them that nap time is bad and should be banned.
This teaches us how to persuade people towards our side of the argument. Literary devices make things sound really nice or really bad and it convinces someone to at least listen to the argument. We are being taught how to persuade people in speeches or just in our research paper how to argue with a topic and seem like a credible trustworthy source.