A Rhetorical Analysis Of A Speech

The speech from Cyber Smile foundation, creates awareness to teenagers between the age of 11- 16 that words can be used as weapons against others if not chosen carefully. The speech was proposed at St John the Baptist school during a morning assembly for their weekly topic of "treat thy neighbour ad you would like to be treated'. The speech had the intentions of changing the attitudes of the teenagers to prevent cases of bullying in wh`ich many of those around their age group are victim of. The main body of the speech is driven by an example of a case to demonstrate a real life situation of cyberbullying. It alerts that once a status is posted about 'Emily' to victimise her, she cannot escape from what has been said as "it followed her” everywhere due to the fact that everyone is connected to a social networking site of some sort. The pronoun "it" in the simple utterance dehumanises the person responsible for updating the status connoting them to some sort of monster indicating the moral that it is wrong to harm someone else therefore re-initiating the theme of 'treat thy neighbour as you would like to be treated' to the audience.
The stress on the 1st syllable on the pronoun 'Emily' was used to emphasis the exclusion caused to the individual when being bullied as a result of young people not choosing their words carefully emphasised with the decrease in volume on the modifier 'victim'. This then creates a sympathetic mood on the audience towards 'Emily' because of the consequences caused by their