President Barack Obama uses a wide variety of techniques to make a successful victory speech. The main features that allowed this were his choices of language; rhetorical devices; his mode of delivery; paralinguistic & prosodic features; and his structure. Obama’s speech is full of carefully thought out language choices that all give a specific effect on the audience. For example‚ many times in the speech Obama repeats the first person pronoun ‘we’ which makes the audience feel included and
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that revolution‚ and that everyone in America is special and should be treated equally. Kennedy accomplishes this through the use of pathos‚ logos‚ and ethos‚ the use of quotations‚ and creates an inspirational tone. The use of pathos in Kennedy’s speech strengthens the idea of liberty and freedom which all Americans should have. He explains that we should promote and protect the rights that all men are free. Kennedy addresses to the nation that “this nation was founded by men from many nations and
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his best effort into his speech to convince Congress to declare war on Japan. His many forms of rhetorical aspects appealed to Congress’s feelings. The speech had the impact on Congress that Roosevelt had hoped for. The was a near unanimous vote to declare war on Japan. There was one person who didn’t want to go to war no matter what‚ because she was a pacifist. Roosevelt’s speech was from his emotions rather than just doing what he had to do. When we gave his speech‚ he transferred his emotions
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From the American Revolution to the Emancipation Proclamation‚ the history of the United States has never better proved that its people have fought hard to earn a wide array of democratic rights. One of these rights includes the freedom for others to share their voice and for us to be able to hear them. Because the United States has a diverse culture‚ the value of listening to voices different than our own is that the more you listen‚ the more you learn how to become a better citizen. Let’s look
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Elementary school shooting‚ Mr. Obama gave an immaculate speech to the mourning community of Newtown. Former President Obama realizes the need to prevent this issue of gun violence‚ and gave a speech to Newtown residents brimming with emotion and thought. Former President Obama not only spoke as the president‚ but as a loving parent to the grieving community of Newtown and all of America. While giving the speech as a parent‚ Mr. Obama used many rhetorical devices to portray the message that we‚ the citizens
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Towards the middle of Lewis’s speech‚ he criticizes the American politics by questioning the whereabouts of a political party that will not give false hope pretenses in it’s promise and claim to help out the civilians marching in Washington. Lewis complicates the idea of American politicians and politics being productive and moral when he announces‚ “...American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises...ally themselves with open forms of political‚ economic
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by his rhetoric‚ which is in fact at work even during the speech in question‚ irrefutably suggests a certain kind of egotism. Also‚ his story’s evocation of pity‚ regardless of the extent to which such a reaction is genuine or partially a product of Othello’s self-deception‚ would naturally be essential to his self-idealization and the boosted self-esteem that would come along with that‚ as it would not present him as a racially “inferior” man who is not in a position to be feared and repulsed‚ but
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them that a personal piece of art‚ whether it be a painting‚ a novel or a movie‚ is different than all the rest. Rhetoricians create an author’s idea‚ their own unique perception of reality‚ for a vast and diverse viewing audience. The Kings Speech is a movie about talking‚ and the importance of talking well. The way humans communicate is really the most important challenge we face in our everyday lives. Speaking is hugely important on an intimate‚ personal level; when the task is to interact
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JFK used many literary devices in his inaugural address‚ including parallelism‚ antithesis‚ metaphor‚ and alliterations. These devices added a sense of rhythm and tone to his address‚ while helping get his message across to the audience in an easier to understand way. I would say one of John F Kennedy’s favorite devices was antithesis. His famous phrase in this speech was “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” This is an example of antithesis‚ which is the
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Speech Analysis-Republican Presidential Debate-CU Boulder Frist of all‚ Debate was not organized at a place of everyone’s reach. I cannot think why anyone chose to have debate in such a small community where almost everyone has met what they have dreamed in their life. Boulder is a community where there are no people left behind and are not hard hit by country’s harsh political moves. It sounds to me that venue selected for debate came from a mindset of staying away from possible agitations from
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