so conceived‚ and so dedicated‚ can long endure.” is a rhetorical device he used. Lincoln wanted his audience to know that the war was a worthy war and was necessary to save the nation. These quotes made the audience feel hope although they were tired. “Final resting place for those who died here‚ that the nation might live” is another rhetorical device used to convince his audience to
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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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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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“The Checkers Speech” It was the midst of the 1952 presidential campaign when the New York Post’s newspaper story came out accusing Senator Richard Nixon of having a secret political fund. This accusation caused Nixon to face the reality of virtually being dropped as the presidential candidate of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s running mate. On September 23‚ 1952‚ Nixon sat down to address one of the largest television audiences in political history until Nixon’s 1960 debate with John F. Kennedy. While millions
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Reid AP American Literature per. 3 Mrs. Baielli 1 December 2014 Rice Stadium Moon Speech Former President John F. Kennedy stated in his inaugural address‚ “Let every nation know‚ whether it wishes us well or ill‚ that we shall pay any price‚ bear any burden‚ meet any hardship‚ support any friend‚ oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of our liberty.” On many occasions‚ like the previous one‚ Kennedy uses parallelism in his speeches to emphasize the idea he is persuading. During Kennedy’s
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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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the election by only 115‚000 popular votes‚ John F. Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic president on January 20‚ 1961 (historyplace.com online). Kennedy’s Inaugural Address uses logic‚ emotion‚ and figurative language to make it a remarkable speech. Kennedy’s use of logic is one of the many techniques that make his speech noteworthy. In Kennedy’s speech‚ he describes how people can improve life on Earth during the new era. John F. Kennedy uses many examples of logic to explain how the world
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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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JFK “Moon” Speech Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft Precedent John Fitzgerald Kennedy also known as JFK gave a speech during the cold war‚ and the race to space. Saying that we need to go to space not to use as a weapon but as a source of knowledge and explaining why we need to. He believes that most of his audience is skeptical and dost want to go to space. To convince the laudians that we need to go to space he passes himself off as a visionist saying that this is going to be the most important thing
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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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