Baroness Thatcher Quotes And Techniques

Baroness Thatcher, the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom. She was famously called the Iron Lady. She was born on October 13 1925 and she was the Conservative Party’s leader. 1979 she was elected as prime minister. Her beliefs and policies caused her to become unpopular with her party and many citizens of the UK. Baroness Thatcher resigned from her position due to her unpopularity in 1990. She died on April 8 2013 at the age of 87 years old. Similarly Boris Johnson is also a member of the conservative party, he is the current Mayor of London and is a subject of controversy. On the 27th of November, Boris Johnson gave a lecture about the late Baroness Thatcher, praising her in many ways.
Johnson and his way of using rapport has displayed his own opinion about the funeral of Baroness Thatcher as well as his opinion of the British Education System of Politics. A rapport is a close relationship in which the people can understand each other's feelings …show more content…
Rhetorical devices are present in Johnson lecture and he uses a lot of different types of them. A rhetorical device is a technique that an author/speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning of a lecture/novel. An appositive was used to show that most of humanity respected Thatcher. This is justified by ‘mass of humanity’. The use of humanity also meant that these specific people were emotionally humane. They showed their support by drowning the cries of boos by hushes. Another rhetorical device has also been used and that is metanoia. We see an example of metanoia in the phrase, ‘immigrants of every race and colour’. Johnson is saying that immigrants of ever colour and race payed their respect to Thatcher because Thatcher was a woman who spoke for and supported the immigrants. Johnson uses ‘race and colour’ to emphasise that all types of people were Thatcher supporters. This causes the mourners to seem more