In Joshua Strickland’s policy speech, “Prison Reform”, he discusses the present prison reform in the country. He shares his views while exploring possible solutions in effort to improve the conditions and the penalty system inside prisons all over the country. Strickland starts his speech with an analogy requesting his audience to do three things. First, he requested his audience to close their eyes and visualize the world as it is today, secondly, he solicited them to imagine their own perfect utopia and how it would be like and lastly, he asks them to merge these worlds together and consider the result.
According to the book Everything is an argument an analogy is defined as “The comparison of two things, often point by point, either to show similarity or to suggest that if two concepts, phenomena, events or even people are alike in one way” (Lunsford &Ruszkiewicz,2016). Strickland uses this analogy to make his audience think and consider the differences between their perfect utopia and their world today.
Furthermore, Strickland establishes a good ethos by revealing the fact that Americans today pay a total of $146,000 in New York City and $75,000 in California on prison funds annually. In the book Everything is an argument ethos is defined as “When writers or speakers come across as trustworthy, audiences …show more content…
Strickland also uses a good eutrepismus structure in his speech by introducing and explaining the problem, then discussing the current prison reform, and lastly by presenting his solution to the problem. Not only but also, he uses myriad of literary devices such as ethos, pathos, logos, analogies and hyperboles throughout his speech to develop his ideas and strengthen his arguments to persuade his audience to support his
According to the book Everything is an argument an analogy is defined as “The comparison of two things, often point by point, either to show similarity or to suggest that if two concepts, phenomena, events or even people are alike in one way” (Lunsford &Ruszkiewicz,2016). Strickland uses this analogy to make his audience think and consider the differences between their perfect utopia and their world today.
Furthermore, Strickland establishes a good ethos by revealing the fact that Americans today pay a total of $146,000 in New York City and $75,000 in California on prison funds annually. In the book Everything is an argument ethos is defined as “When writers or speakers come across as trustworthy, audiences …show more content…
Strickland also uses a good eutrepismus structure in his speech by introducing and explaining the problem, then discussing the current prison reform, and lastly by presenting his solution to the problem. Not only but also, he uses myriad of literary devices such as ethos, pathos, logos, analogies and hyperboles throughout his speech to develop his ideas and strengthen his arguments to persuade his audience to support his