Test educators' ability to assess students' skills in identifying and analyzing pragmatic implicatures and presuppositions in contemporary political speeches — including types (conversational vs. conventional implicature; existential, factive, lexical presuppositions), annotation of short excerpts, explanation of how these devices frame issues and align audience beliefs (ethos, pathos, logos), comparison across speakers, evaluation of persuasive effectiveness and ethical implications, and formulation of revised wording to alter persuasive impact.