Rhetorical Analysis Of Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address
Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson:
Evidence:
Speaker:
Thomas Jefferson
“Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens”
Occasion:
Inauguration Speech
“Friends and FELLOW CITIZENS”
Audience:
Common People
“About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you”
Purpose:
To inform citizens on what he will be establishing during his presidency.
“…it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration”
Subject:
Goals to achieve during presidency
“…entangling alliances with none; the …show more content…
Rhetorical Devices:
Parallelism, Juxtaposition, Synecdoche
I HAVE A DREAM by Martin Luther King Jr:
Evidence:
Speaker:
Martin Luther King Jr
“I have a dream”
Occasion:
The day when Abraham Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation
“Five years ago a great America in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation”
Audience:
To all American citizens especially African Americans
“Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality”
Purpose:
To urge that equality for African Americans should be done immediately
“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood”
Subject:
Equality for African Americans
“This momentous decree is a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”
Tone:
Hopeful
“…we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual”
Rhetorical Devices:
Repetition, Parallelism, Synecdoche,
Evidence:
Speaker:
Thomas Jefferson
“Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens”
Occasion:
Inauguration Speech
“Friends and FELLOW CITIZENS”
Audience:
Common People
“About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you”
Purpose:
To inform citizens on what he will be establishing during his presidency.
“…it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration”
Subject:
Goals to achieve during presidency
“…entangling alliances with none; the …show more content…
Rhetorical Devices:
Parallelism, Juxtaposition, Synecdoche
I HAVE A DREAM by Martin Luther King Jr:
Evidence:
Speaker:
Martin Luther King Jr
“I have a dream”
Occasion:
The day when Abraham Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation
“Five years ago a great America in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation”
Audience:
To all American citizens especially African Americans
“Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality”
Purpose:
To urge that equality for African Americans should be done immediately
“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood”
Subject:
Equality for African Americans
“This momentous decree is a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”
Tone:
Hopeful
“…we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual”
Rhetorical Devices:
Repetition, Parallelism, Synecdoche,