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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In this speech in which president kennedy denounces WC Steel Corporations for the increased price for which they sell steel‚ Kennedy repeatedly appeals to ethos. We can see how Kennedy first uses ethos in the second paragraph of his speech. Kennedy begins by separating himself‚ a well known graduate from an ivy league school‚ from any steel companies which we would believe him to have social affiliations with. In doing so Kennedy builds a sense of trust in which now anything that he says during his
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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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Caesar‚ Brutus and Antony both gave speeches to the people of Rome regarding Caesar’s death. In comparison of the two speeches‚ there were many similarities and differences. By using his rhetorical skills‚ Mark Antony was able to persuade the people of Rome to support him. Considering that Brutus’ speech contained mainly logos‚ he wasn’t able to captivate his audience as well as Antony did. Marcus Brutus was the first person to give his speech after Caesar died. During his speech‚ Brutus told the
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the tragedy that happened on July 18‚ 1969 on Chappaquiddick Island‚ that resulted in the death of a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was a secretary of the late Robert Kennedy and was still working with the Kennedy family. He begins his speech to communicate that he has “entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.” (paragraph 1‚ line 2-3) This confession of the proceedings he has gone through is an example of Bitzer theory on exigence based on the fact that
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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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The Corruptor The paralyzing powers of speech often engulfs the human mind and corrupts it to the will of the speaker. Omnipresent in society‚ rhetorical appeals‚ the appealing powers of speech‚ are made to project the speaker’s thoughts and ideas of a subject matter. From ordinary conversations to commercial advertisements to public addresses‚ appeals are present to influence an audience’s mindset. The appeal of Logos creates compelling evidence for the audience to develop conclusions in the speaker’s
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Mark Antony was a cunning‚ strong-willed‚ and loyal Roman. He was a devoted friend to Caesar. He looked at life as a game in which he had a significant part to play‚ and played that part with excellent refinement and skill. Antony was a devoted follower of Julius Caesar. Because he was a good friend‚ he was willing to be second hand to Caesar‚ the new king. Whilst Caesar would become the king‚ the most valuable but least powerful piece in chess‚ he would become the rook‚ a semi-valuable‚ very important
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