uses his speech to inspire the Americans listening‚ hoping for a better relationship with the USSR during his presidency. During paragraphs twelve through twenty-one of his speech‚ he speaks about his hope for improved he appeals to pathos by using anaphora and diction‚ appeals to ethos with his position as the leader of America‚ and appeals to logos by describing how the USSR will react to his plans. Throughout this section of his speech‚ Kennedy mainly uses two techniques to appeal to pathos: diction
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response to the clergymen’s first claim that King is a an extremist‚ he uses allusions that appeal to the clergymen as well as anaphora and a rhetorical question. He refutes the claim that he is a lawbreaker by allding to religious figures and human rights. The clergymen also claim that King’s actions are untimely. Martin Luther King responds to this with charged words and anaphora that are meant to refute their claim. In response to the claim that he is an extremist Martin Luther King uses allusions
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English HL Commentary - Too Many Names - Pablo Neruda The poem " Too Many Names" by Pablo Neruda written uses several poetic devices ‚ including metaphors‚ anaphoras and asyndeton light on one of the ideas the poet to shed light back into communist political opinion. It is the idea of equality and equal worth of each human being ‚ with such names as a method to this claim that names are of no use to explain. While the poem ( including the title) ‚ Neruda‚ his idea of the names of people
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of racial integration for the future. King’s speech can be separated into three main parts‚ past‚ present‚ and future. In these sections King used the same three strategies over‚ to make the speech easy to follow and understand. King uses anaphora‚ repetition at the beginning of a sentence to emphasize the past aspect of his speech. He repeats “One hundred years later‚” to show how racial segregation is still as much of a problem as it was a hundred ago. In the fourth paragraph of his
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the sister falls in the door on top of Roderick and they are both dead. The narrator runs and escapes the house of Usher. Poe uses many language techniques to scare the reader such as allusions/references to other texts‚ descriptive language‚ and anaphora. This essay will discuss these three techniques. Poe implies to other texts throughout The Fall of the House of Usher. In the opening epigraph‚ Poe quotes "Le Refus" (1831) by the French songwriter Pierre-Jean de Béranger. The narrator describes
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figurative language aspect‚ that acts as almost a gateway for other literary devices in this work‚ such as metaphor‚ alliteration‚ and anaphora. One quote from the sonnet that shows symbolism is in lines one and two where it says‚ “When to the sessions of sweet
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The essay Civil Disobedience‚ written by Henry David Thoreau has much to do with Thoreau’s own experiences than a general perception of people as a whole. Thoreau‚ a stellar student from Harvard believed one key idea: change begins with the individual. With this belief Thoreau in 1846 spoke out against the Mexican American War and slavery. His response resulted in the deliberate obliviousness to his taxes. In July of 1846 Thoreau was arrested for not paying his taxes and spent a night in Jail. During
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writing the letter was to explain to the clergyman what he was doing in the town of Birmingham and why he was not “untimely and unwisely.” King uses multiple rhetorical strategies in his letter to make it stronger. Three of these strategies are ethos‚ anaphora‚ and allusions. Martin Luther King Jr. implements ethos in his letter as an effective rhetorical device to gain credibility from the Bible and from his beliefs. First‚ King takes credibility from the Bible saying “Was not Jesus an extremist for
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gender; His message made me feel otherwise.” (Debra Wilson‚ 1775) In his speech‚ Henry aims to convince the colonist that the opposing forces must‚ “Give me Liberty‚ or give me death” compacted with dexterous rhetorical techniques such as imagery‚ anaphora‚ repetition‚ and pathos to assemble a believable‚ undoubted‚ well-founded speech. Henry begins his speech assertively with “No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism‚ as well as the abilities of the very worthy gentlemen who have just
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March 29‚ 1964‚ Malcolm X gave a speech warning of "the ballot or the bullet" (3) from the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights‚ New York. Extending his position to black people living in America‚ Malcolm X used repetition of words‚ epistrophe‚ anaphora‚ and antithesis to convey his message in a forceful and fascinating way. Malcolm X spoke to black nationalists as a plea for action against their white oppressors. He made the point that African-Americans were treated as second class citizens: they
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