Ahn begins her speech by saying, "Most of us have, at one time or another, belonged to a group that felt like family. This group probably had certain expectations for how you acted, maybe what you wore, even what you believed. But did this group dictate your every move? Did other members try to stop you from talking to your family or forbid you from going home? For five years my cousin Deidre experienced control like this. Who would impose these kinds of rules on another person? The answer: a cult." Ahn has captured her audience's attention by appealing to their

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Pranav Decker

5 July, 11:49

Ahn begins her speech by saying, "Most of us have, at one time or another, belonged to a group that felt like family. This group probably had certain expectations for how you acted, maybe what you wore, even what you believed. But did this group dictate your every move? Did other members try to stop you from talking to your family or forbid you from going home? For five years my cousin Deidre experienced control like this. Who would impose these kinds of rules on another person? The answer: a cult." Ahn has captured her audience's attention by appealing to their

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Teresa Stewart · Answer 1

Ahn has captured her audience's attention by appealing to their curiosity.

Explanation:

Curiosity can be described as a word which is used for expressing the urge a person feels to know about something. It can be described as the sate of being curious about something.

Many speakers try to make their speech curious so that people actually listen to the speaker in their feeling of urge to know something.

The same technique of raising curiosity was used by Ahn in his speech to attract her listeners.