Clinton's Speech Analysis

Trump creates a different, more darker image in comparison to Clinton’s more united image of America, focusing more on America’s failures and his disgust at current policies in order to create substantial change and favores an isolationst point of view for America’s future. Instead of the idea of unity, Trump’s words are more divisive instead of indivisible and link to images of competition and failure. Essentially, Trump uses words with negative connotations such as “disaster”, “worst” and “corrupt”, which will prompt voters to look re-evaluate America’s current ineffective policies, such as pro-choice and immigration reforms. This sparks the voter’s repugnance which gives them the incentive to vote for Trump for a different future.

Firstly, to insert authority, in contrast to Clinton’s emphasis on the pronoun “we” as a united America making further decisions, Trump instead uses the
According to a globe analysis, in his republican candidacy acceptance speech Trump used personal pronouns (I, me, my) 857 times in his 25,722 word speech, which indicates 3.3% of the time, 300% more than Clinton. This is to ensure voters that as a figure of dominance he is guaranteed to shift policies in America. Secondly, Trump uses belligerent diction such as “destroyed” and “killing” which links to chaos, war and such as his most well known phrase “we will build a wall”, which leads to an idea that Trump will divide the country, and isolate/separate it from the prior troubles the democrats have caused when Obama was president. Building a wall from prior struggles helps influence voters unhappy with the current system and