Queen Elizabeth Tilbury Speech

As the threat of invasion from the Spanish Armada still hung, Queen Elizabeth I attempted to rally her troops in the town of Tilbury. The Queen dispelled opposition of her position and worries about her lack of capabilities as she delivered her Tilbury Speech on August 9th, 1588. Through her use of diction, imagery, and sentence structure the Queen successfully rallies her troops to confront the encroaching enemy. The Queen uses diction to praise and motivate her people using words like, "faithful" and "loving," praising their "loyal" and "goodwill," to describe her subjects; this use of diction allows her subjects to view her as a caring, kind, and kinglike leader. She also uses words like “noble” and “worthy” to instill a sense of duty