Rhetorical Analysis Of Pearl Harbor Speech

Franklin Delano Roosevelt changes tones throughout his Pearl Harbor speech to reassure and inform his audience. In his speech FDR creates the tones of informative and reassurance by using repetition. Roosevelt only uses these two different tones and shifts his tone in the middle of the speech. He begins the speech informing the people what has happened and then then ends by reasurring the American people everything will be ok. The change in tone helps make the article sound less depressing and more reassuring. FDR starts this speech with an informative tone and repeats his main points. The topic is very sensitive because this was a day where there was a surprise attack by the Japanese on our naval base in Hawaii. The japanese bombed our