Rhetorical Analysis Of President Obama's Speech

By what mean does President Obama try to win, keep and persuade his audience in this speech
President Obama try’s to win, keep and persuade his audience in this speech in many different ways and using many different techniques and I am going to outline some of those ways below.
Firstly, he changes his register when talking to the students. “Hello everyone- how’s everybody doing today?” he is changing his register to an informal, colloquial and humble tone to make everyone feel relaxed and comfortable. “You won’t click with every teacher” I think he changes his register here because he is trying to relate with his audience by using the same language as the youth. He also tries to relate with the audience by talking and giving examples
Jazmin didn’t speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and in now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being DR. Jazmin Perez. I’m thinking about Ando I Schultz, form Los Alto , California, who’s being fighting brain cancer since her was three. He’s endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer- hundreds of extra hours- to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind, and he’s headed to college this fall. And then there’s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods, she managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young people out of hangs; and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.” I think he uses the examples because it proves his point about working hard and that there are no excuses about not working hard. I also think he uses these examples to prove his point because if they can do it then everyone else should be able