The thesis statement for your speech should state what you want the audience to believe or do. a. informative b. motivational c. persuasive d. declarative

Persuasive

Explanation:

A persuasive speech is one in which you want to convince an audience of a particular point of view, belief or opinion. In this type of essay, the author uses rhetorical devices in order to prove his point, and encourage his audience to agree with him. The main claim of an essay is the thesis statement. And in a persuasive essay, the thesis statement should state what you want the audience to believe or do.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.