Anaphora

Such as with most great things, President Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address” was not only appealing to the ears, but it was also a literary gem, of the dozens of rhetorical device these four stood out: use of anaphora, parallelism, pathos, and antithesis. President Kennedy’s use of anaphora plays an important role in how he communicates his message to the audience throughout the entire speech, but in particular, when he clarifies the reason for his…

Company. Anne Bradstreet is a famous writer in the 17th century, and she writes many poems about the importance of family, loss and acceptance. For instance, in "To my Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild", Bradstreet uses anaphora to emphasize her love for her husband the importance of family. The author also employs in "the Author to Her Book", an extended metaphor to explain her creative process. Also, Bradstreet uses in "Upon The Burning of Our House", allusions to…

my point in a straightforward manner. In my opening sentences, I used a rhetorical device called an anaphora, where I repeat the beginning of a sentence three times, each with a different ending to convey a different meaning. Such is the technique used by Elie Wiesel in his book Night. In this section, he repeats himself by starting with the phrase “Never…

In author Howard LaFranchi’s article “Hillary Clinton at UN: Women’s Progress is Human Progress” he tells of Clinton’s research about women’s progress: “Hilary Clinton identified equality for the world’s women and girls as the central challenge that will determine the peace and progress of the 21st century.” Clinton’s goal for the twenty first century and beyond is to make women and men equals, and for women to have the same opportunities as men. Clinton was the first female senator from the…

the United States history. His most powerful speech, “I have a dream” touched the heart of thousands of citizens. To make it such an effective speech, King successfully utilized various rhetorical devices. The most used devices in his speech are anaphora, metaphor and alliteration. “I have a dream” was given on August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which was 2 months after President John F. Kennedy promulgated the Civil Right Legislation. With the hope…

the excerpts of “Christopher Reeve’s Decision” and “The House on Mango Street”, Cisneros and Reeve represent disabilities through the uses of internal conflict and anaphora that announce that how one deals with a disability, affects how they turn out in the end. In the autobiography, Christopher Reeve uses internal conflict and anaphora to represent disability. When Dr.Jane, Reeve’s doctor, told him that he could never breathe on his own again, he “thought why not die...and save everyone a lot…

democrats had nominated Kerry as the party’s bid for president, so they wanted to immediately start campaigning for their representative. And Obama was the one chosen to write and deliver a speech to do just that. So, through well used metaphors, anaphora, and abstract language in his speech, Obama persuaded the nation to vote for John Kerry…

President of the United States, he primarily aimed to dictate the values of freedom and liberty within the world while simultaneously addressing the conflicts that lay with the Cold War. Kennedy strategically addressed his inaugural speech by using anaphora to make his audience universal rather than just the United States, which allows…

impacts the nation in his moving speech by employing repetition and referring to outside documents. One rhetorical device that helps King convey his message to his readers is repetition. In the beginning of his speech, Martin Luther King utilizes anaphora and recapitulates the phrase “One hundred years later…” to enhance its importance. This phrase is referring to how long ago laws were made for equality of all races; however, African Americans are still being discriminated. By restating this…

Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Resistance to Civil Government” contains many rhetorical devices such as polysyndeton, rhetorical questions, and anaphora, which create a well-developed and concise essay. One of the rhetorical devices that Thoreau uses is polysyndeton, which slows the reader's pace down, and allows them to fully understand the information that was given. This essay has many rhetorical questions, which are used throughout the essay to create a thought process for the reader,…