Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By Carrie Chapman Catt

In the speech, “The Crisis,” by Carrie Chapman Catt is portraying the empowerment of women and urges women groups to join the fight for equality and the fight for Women's Suffrage. Carrie Chapman converses of a sexual bias in the society that lives even in the modern day. From having our first female candidate stand for election for the post of President to a President that is that opposite of everything good in America. We live in the society where we think the society has got past the racial & sexual discrimination but deep down in this vicious societal norms demons still haunt over the bright light. Many women acquiesce because of the gender role they play in an abhorring closed in earth The speech uses an abundance of rhetorical devices imagery, metaphors, parallelism to impasses on the point she wants to convey.

Carrie Chapman Catt starts the speech luring people in the content she wrote by using pathos and saying, “We woman have been so used to being kept down
It also projects her position and power of being on the stance of being the president of woman suffrage for her speech.

Carrie Chapman Catt’s speech is her primary reason to get the applause and willingness of her followers to empower the movement she was leading By asking rhetorical questions and answering them with metaphorical answers she successfully has her followers attention and motivates them into actions. She uses words that made her sound trusty and reliable. The path for the change has been started thanks to the honored people who supported and sustained the cause. All because of Carrie’s perseverance, empathy, and willingness to help the