Ap Language In Queen Elizabeth's Speech

At the beginning of her reign, Queen Elizabeth was resented, as many did not want to see a woman on the throne. Her advisors warned her not to appear before her armed soldiers, for fear that they would turn on her. Queen Elizabeth knew her audience and her public image well and, for this reason, urgently sought to pacify with her audience immediately and opened her speech with strong pathetic disarming rhetoric. With her address, “My loving people…” (Tudor), Elizabeth implied what their relationship was to her, making them beholden to her, and established a tone of affection, ownership, and responsibility. Her repetition of this phrase throughout the speech served to emphasize the connection between the queen and her soldiers. The Queen’s careful