Analysis of Obama’s victory speech Obama’s victory speech is a speech that the democrat Barack Obama held in his hometown Chicago‚ after being elected for president on November 4th‚ 2012. Chicago is where he in 2008 won his first presidential election. When taking a starting point in the pentagon model‚ we know that a text (in this case a speech) is always centered around an intention of the writer/speaker and is always dependent on the interrelationship between the topic‚ the writer‚ the reader/audience
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Rhetorical Analysis In President George W. Bush’s speech to the American public on September 20‚ 2001‚ Bush utilizes rhetorical devices to craft an effective speech. He uses an instructive and demanding tone‚ makes an appeal to Logos‚ and varied syntax. The strongest device of Bush’s speech is his decisive and instructive tone. Throughout the entire dialogue‚ Bush uses statements and facts to consolidate all of his various ideas and points into concise sentences that directly state what has happened
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Bias The speech it obviously catering towards females‚ the speech was presented at a U.N. Women’s Conference‚ this speech is about the rights women should expect to receive under human rights. While using the politics to reinforce the rights of women she is using political bias and she is using a gender bias. Rhetorical Devices This speech has a couple rhetorical devices‚ the first one I found was a Rhetorical question when she said‚ “Wasn’t it after all after the women’s conference in Nairobi
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Our 35th president‚ John Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ was inaugurated on January 20‚ 1961. On that day he gave a speech that gave solidarity to America at a time when it needed it most. Kennedy alludes to patriotism as a cure for the problems of our nation in this speech. One type of patriotism Kennedy talks about is war patriots‚ or patriotism through defending our nation. He says‚ “Each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty‚” meaning all Americans have had
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so conceived‚ and so dedicated‚ can long endure.” is a rhetorical device he used. Lincoln wanted his audience to know that the war was a worthy war and was necessary to save the nation. These quotes made the audience feel hope although they were tired. “Final resting place for those who died here‚ that the nation might live” is another rhetorical device used to convince his audience to
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President Barack Obama uses a wide variety of techniques to make a successful victory speech. The main features that allowed this were his choices of language; rhetorical devices; his mode of delivery; paralinguistic & prosodic features; and his structure. Obama’s speech is full of carefully thought out language choices that all give a specific effect on the audience. For example‚ many times in the speech Obama repeats the first person pronoun ‘we’ which makes the audience feel included and
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From the American Revolution to the Emancipation Proclamation‚ the history of the United States has never better proved that its people have fought hard to earn a wide array of democratic rights. One of these rights includes the freedom for others to share their voice and for us to be able to hear them. Because the United States has a diverse culture‚ the value of listening to voices different than our own is that the more you listen‚ the more you learn how to become a better citizen. Let’s look
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that revolution‚ and that everyone in America is special and should be treated equally. Kennedy accomplishes this through the use of pathos‚ logos‚ and ethos‚ the use of quotations‚ and creates an inspirational tone. The use of pathos in Kennedy’s speech strengthens the idea of liberty and freedom which all Americans should have. He explains that we should promote and protect the rights that all men are free. Kennedy addresses to the nation that “this nation was founded by men from many nations and
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In this speech in which president kennedy denounces WC Steel Corporations for the increased price for which they sell steel‚ Kennedy repeatedly appeals to ethos. We can see how Kennedy first uses ethos in the second paragraph of his speech. Kennedy begins by separating himself‚ a well known graduate from an ivy league school‚ from any steel companies which we would believe him to have social affiliations with. In doing so Kennedy builds a sense of trust in which now anything that he says during his
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his best effort into his speech to convince Congress to declare war on Japan. His many forms of rhetorical aspects appealed to Congress’s feelings. The speech had the impact on Congress that Roosevelt had hoped for. The was a near unanimous vote to declare war on Japan. There was one person who didn’t want to go to war no matter what‚ because she was a pacifist. Roosevelt’s speech was from his emotions rather than just doing what he had to do. When we gave his speech‚ he transferred his emotions
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