Question

In her persuasive speech, martha spoke about the possibility of dirty nuclear weapons being used against the united states by iraq, iran, and north korea. she challenged her audience to monitor senate hearings on the problem and to get involved by writing or emailing their legislators. what form of motivation did martha successfully employ in her speech?

Answer 1

She used negative motivation. She kept talking about the bad aspects of it and how it might turn out that people were motivated to stop it. It is called negative motivation and it worked because many people accepted this and started raising more questions out of fear for their safety.