Rhythm and Rhetoric: A Linguistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Address Liilia Batluk Supervisor: Stuart Foster School of Humanities Halmstad University Bachelor’s thesis in English Acknowledgment My appreciations to my supervisor Stuart Foster for very helpful advice during the research. Abstract In this essay I shall analyze Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address‚ January‚ 2009 from the perspective of various linguistic techniques. More specifically‚ I shall propose and focus on the idea that the
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Step-by-step Rhetorical Analysis 1. Identify the three elements of the rhetorical triangle. a. Who is the speaker? (education‚ ethnicity‚ era‚ political persuasion‚ etc.) b. Who is the audience? c. What is the subject? 2. What is the author saying about the subject? What is his/her assertion? 3. What is the author’s attitude (tone) about the subject? a. What specific word choice (diction) clues the reader in? b. What figures of speech are used? Does the imagery/analogies/allusions conjure
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means learning to recognize audiences‚ writers‚ points of view and purposes‚ and to evaluate arguments. In addition to the rhetorical triangle‚ structure of an argument‚ and rhetorical appeals‚ you should look at the following devices used by authors when performing critical analysis. Keep in mind too that these are only some of the devices‚ and that authors may use other rhetorical devices as well. Word choice Denotative language. Words that relate directly to the knowledge and experience of
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Pearl Harbor. The purpose of President Roosevelt’s "Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation" was to educate the nation on what had happened on December 7th. He also wanted to justify his reasons for needing to go to war with the Empire of Japan. Each and every word in this distinguished speech played on the emotions of the american people‚ and it provided significant support for his purpose. The powerful words Roosevelt used in the address gave strong support that grabbed the American peoples’ attention
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ARTICLE OF ASSOCIATION Every company is required to file Articles of Association along with the Memorandum of Association with the Registrar at the time of its registration. Companies Act defines ‘Articles as Articles of Association of a company as originally framed or as altered from time to time in pursuance of any previous companies Acts. They also include‚ so far as they apply to the company‚ those in the Table A in Schedule I annexed to the Act or corresponding provisions in earlier Acts
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Byoungho Kang Trent Hudley English 122 17 February 2013 As Families Change‚ Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide “As Families Change‚ Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide” is an article of The New York Times. The article shows us an increasing suicide rate of old people in South Korea because of Korea’s social changes. Author‚ Sang-hun Choe‚ is well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning South Korean journalist. In terms of his career‚ he began his journalism career as a political reporter
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Did the CIA kill JFK? A Conspiracy Theory The CIA was established to protect the United States from any threats to our national security‚ but have they taken their authority too far? They have the authority to protect the U.S. to any extreme they believe necessary‚ but their definition of “national security” may not be to the same extent as it was originally (www.fff.org). There are many conspiracies about the CIA and their involvement with Coup D’états around the world and connections with the
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States of America. The prevalence of obesity has been on the rise in America for several decades now. Most people have attributed the increase of obesity to two reasons: people are consuming high-fat and high-calories foods‚ and people are consuming a greater number of calories than they are burning off. Kathleen Seiders and Leonard Berry are business professors at Boston College and Texas A&M University‚ respectively. In December 2007‚ they published the article in the MIT Sloan Management Review titled
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Tramy Quach Professor Knapp English 100A‚ Section 6 Final Draft 03/06/13 RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PAPER Introduction Rhetorical strategy is a type of method for writers to manipulate their writing to purpose an idea or influence the reader. Narration‚ description‚ and exemplification are some of the rhetorical appeals writer use to grab the reader’s attention. And invoke strong reaction out of the reader. Apart from these strategies‚ many writers use Aristotle’s appeals of Logos‚ Ethos‚ and Pathos
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Full Name Instructor Course Name Date Fact? or Fiction? The story “I Just Wanna Be Average”‚ written by Mike Rose offers up a personal account of how a testing mistake early in his high school days could have changed the course of his life for the worse and how these events and those that followed solidified his perception of the educational system as an adult. The author tries to establish credibility by writing in a first-person narrative of his life as a teenager growing up in early 1960s
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