Malala Yousafzai Speech Analysis

Peacemaker, Malala Yousafzai, in her speech at The United Nations Youth Assembly, describes the need for human rights and dismisses the ways of the Taliban. Yousafzai’s purpose is to emphasize the dire need for civil rights for everyone. She uses forced teaming, credibility or ethos, and anaphora to promote her agenda of human rights.
To begin, Malala Yousafzai uses forced teaming to increase her influence on the audience. Forced teaming is a technique in which the speaker frequently uses words such as “we” or “our” to persuade the audience into believing they are a part of something. In her speech, Yousafzai says “we” twenty-eight times, “our” ten times, and “us” six times. Forced teaming establishes trust between the speaker and the audience by making them feel connected. It then becomes easier for the audience to believe Yousafzai and agree with her in her effort to promote human rights.
Anaphora is a technique where the speaker says something over and over again at the beginning of various sentences throughout the writing to create a strong emotional effect. In her speech Yousafzai begins sentences with “Dear brothers and sisters” seven times, “we call upon” six times, and “so let us” three times. Using anaphora builds a climax which will make the speaker’s point more powerful. Anaphora makes it easier for the audience to agree with her promoting human rights because if something is powerful then it will be impactful and memorable. Using anaphora is a technique Malala Yousafzai uses to reinforce the audience’s successive thoughts, which makes it easier for the audience to collect their thoughts and to ultimately agree with her. Malala Yousafzai utilizes three stylistic elements: forced teaming, credibility, and anaphora, to promote human rights in her speech at The United Nations Youth Assembly. The Page