Interacting with the audience during an informative speech?

I'm a young student and this is my first time to compose and deliver a speech for my English subject..I was wondering if it is okay to interact with the audience(my classmates and teacher for the subject). The speech is about teens(youth), the things that keeps them(us) from the right way, why these happens and how to avoid or stop it. I'd be pretending to be a doctor of psychology and the audience, I'd ask them to pretend as the parents. So um the audience is basically composed of parents..................





NOW my questions are:


Is it legal for an informative speech to be interactive to the audience? Can I ask them questions and ask for answers?


Is it alright to say "right?" in a manner of inquiring if they agree.





Asking for example: ....since they are parents, well I'd already know they have kids, so I might be asking how many and maybe how old their kids are. Also, I could be asking them if they have one of the problems that I've just delivered and what do to make things right

Interacting with the audience during an informative speech?
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I would have thought that an informative speech, is just that, it informs, what you are proposing is an interactive speech whereby you engage in social discourse with the audience.





Don't forget the danger of giving someone else the stage, they steal the show.





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