Donald Trump's Speech Rhetorical Devices

Donald Trump's inauguration speech is riddled with many rhetorical devices which color his speech as, for lack of a better phrase, villains speech in the batman movie. “We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you – the people.”(Bane) if this sound eerily familiar it's because it is “Today we are not merely transferring power from one administration or another ... we are transferring power from Washington DC and giving it back to you – the people.” Even though he doesn't reference many but the Bible in his speech, the gloom and misery of disaster is vibrant. President Trump uses tools such as imagery, tones, and rhetorical devices such as hyperbole to completely get his point across.

“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