Which of the following are characteristics of a persuasive speech? select all that apply. a persuasive speech is often delivered to an audience. a persuasive speech is often read aloud by an audience. a persuasive speech “sells” your thoughts. a persuasive speech allows the audience to think for themselves.

- A persuasive speech is often delivered to an audience.

-  A persuasive speech “sells” your thoughts.

Explanation:

A persuasive speech is inclined to inform, inspire, and convince the readers to believe in a particular idea conveyed by the author. This type of speech echoes a central idea with the utmost clarity of ideas that evokes the thoughts of the readers. Persuasive speech always involves the interest of the readers as a chief concern in order to evoke an emotional/expected response from them. Thus, it is a speech delivered to an audience and it "sells" one's thoughts as it targets the emotional aspect of the readers that offers the desired outcome as in the end they are convinced and believe in that specific idea.

from the excerpt from the "the dark game" the reader can infer that folke cronholm was spying for the allied nations.