Creating the climax of speech by asking questions

To ask is to ask and answer. The reason why it is widely used in speech is that it can adjust the atmosphere of speech, arouse the audience's interest and enthusiasm, achieve the purpose of reminding and emphasizing, stimulate the audience to think about problems together, so as to make the speaker firmly grasp the initiative of speech.

We might as well analyze the last paragraph of Churchill's famous first speech as Prime Minister: "you ask: what is our policy? I said that our policy is to use all our abilities and all the strength that God can give us to wage war on the sea, on land and in the air, and to fight against a ferocious tyranny unprecedented in the dark and tragic history of human beings. This is our policy. You ask: what is our goal? We can answer it in two words: Victory - win at all costs; win no matter how terrible; win no matter how far and hard the road is. "

The first part of the speech mainly reports on the formation of the cabinet of the new government, and the second part clarifies the attitude and policies of the new government. Through reading the whole speech, it is not difficult to see that through step by step and layer by layer promotion, the speaker's thought expression is more and more distinct, profound and complete, and his feelings are also more and more intense. At the end, the speaker skillfully used two rhetorical sentences to fully state his own views and opinions, and expressed his emotions, which made the speech reach the climax.