“Rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.” Is one of many examples of imagery in president Trump's speech. The imagery of scattered tombstone undoubtedly sets a picture of melancholy. “...Gangs and the drugs have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much…” the mere use of the powerful word: robbed, or stolen give the readers or listeners a sense of ownership that was previously absent. However this imagery would not have the effect it did if the …show more content…
“...an education system flush with cash but leave our students deprived of all knowledge...mothers and children trapped in poverty…” Although president Trump could have started on a more hopeful and unifying note, much like the previous president, he prominently expresses his attitude toward America and what it has become today. The disrepair that shows, along with many other excerpt, the metaphorical dark cloud he looms; however it does not show what he intends to do to approach the problems. There are, nonetheless, rhetorical devices that give us a hint toward his solutions to America’s critical