Yes We Can By Barack Obama Bradc

Yes We Can by Barack Obama In Obama’s campaign speech presented on January 8th 2008 there are continuous techniques that he uses to persuade the audience to vote for him. He slowly establishes a rapport to create a sense of equality between him and the audience; he does this by using first person plural, such as ‘we’ which is effective because it makes all the people feel united and as if he is directly talking to them as a person. He also uses abstract nouns like ‘hope’ to make an emotional appeal to the American people and to suggest that there is a new start in the future. This is important for him to try and get more people of all ages to vote and see his point of view. Obama also repeats ‘Yes We Can’ nine times, by using the phrase ‘yes we can’ he inspires people to have trust and hope in Obama to lead them to a better future and to declare that he can help America. He uses a historical reference in one of his lines ‘it was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation’ this is a reference to the beginning of America when everyone was equal.
Obama uses religious imagery throughout the speech for example ‘creed’ to appeal to a wider variety of American people.
In the first paragraph he also uses a scale in the quotation ‘nothing can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.’ to make the people aware of the changes and differences he will make if he becomes president. All the way throughout the speech he uses lots of ‘we and we’ve’ which tells the American people that they are all united and creates a sense of togetherness. After he says ‘Yes We Can’ he then says a short paragraph which adds effect and structure to the speech.
In the fifth paragraph Obama uses auxesis to build it up, quotation ‘it was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised