adding a direct quote makes you sound as though you paid attention, and you know what you're talking about, making you seem more reliable
A speaker should list everything she knows about the topic and purpose of speech in the introduction.
This is not true, if you listed everything you knew what would make up the body of paper.
Should have something to grab audience’s attention, maybe a important highlights of history or background, and then a thesis (listing the items you plan to discuss and your stance on them or their importance.
Because you know someone might be in danger. Guide dogs are really important for their owners, its a job. They're not just pets for them but also someone they depend on and someone they trust.
The average reader will spend 1 hours and 36 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).
I think the second one:
play in poetic form
Since it was written by Shakespeare and because it's the story of Romeo and Juliet.
It just seems appropriate to me :/
I hope it's right!