Question

What is the speakers claim?

I don't know what that actually means. Can some help please?!!!

Answer 1

speaker's *

Answer 2

The speakers claim? Hmmm.... It depends upon the question.
When someone is making a "claim" they are declaring something without giving proof to back their claim up.
Or they are making a formal demand for something.
Could you give me a little more information about this question?

Answer 3

Go to this:
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-speakers-claim-215069 ?

Answer 4

That's just an example for another story.

Answer 5

so is it asking what is the author's purpose?

Answer 6

^ @31356

Answer 7

I am not sure.......

Answer 8

@stevensde Well basically it is a story I read for my english class for distracted driving and it's a rhetorical device type of thing. Evaluating a speaker. One second .. hold up I'll show you

Answer 9

I KNOW ITS ALOT BUT THATS PART OF IT @stevensde

Answer 10

Ahhh a rhetorical device... one moment I will refresh my memory on this rhetorical device. :) and hopefully be able to help you.

Answer 11

YEAH , I KNOW WHAT ALL THE RHETORICAL DEVICES MEAN , BUT THE FIRST QUESTION IT ASKED ME AFTER READING THE STORY WAS

"WHAT IS THE SPEAKER'S CLAIM?"

Answer 12

I will not answer your question if you will be 'yelling' at me dessyindigo.

Answer 13

I am not yelling at you sorry. my computer was in all caps.

Answer 14

@stevensde

Answer 15

Ok, after reading the text I've come to the conclusion that the speaker's claim is this:

"Just in my heart, I knew. She had taken the back road to school that morning. She wasn't supposed to take it, because it was a dangerous road. And that is where I found her truck, out in the field."

This is the speakers claim because the speaker (narrator) of the story is declaring without any evidence that she knows where her daughter is. She knows that she took her truck through the dangerous back road to school and that is what she is claiming happened to her daughter when the aide asked where she was. Remember my definition of claim? A person can make a claim without any evidence of something and so the mother made a claim that she knew where her daughter was.

Answer 16

Ok thank you so much. I understand now.

Answer 17

I see that your question requires the effect this speakers claim has on the audience.

The effect that this claim brings on the audience is that

a. This claim tells me that the narrator knows her daughter fairly well.
b. When the narrator says that "I knew where she was, and I knew what happened." This is a very short-lived foreshadowing to the daughter's accident and death. Right away I knew that something bad happened and it saddened and made me anticipate the next sections in the story.