In this speech, the speaker used a lot of anecdote in her speech. For example:
1) I kind of want to tell you little bit more of the – I don’t want to say basics, because we don’t really know anything about my syndrome.
2) I had to deal with bullying a lot, but as I said I was raised very normally, so when I started kindergarten, I had absolutely no idea that I looked different, no clue. I couldn’t see that I looked different from other kids.
3) When I was in high school I found a video, unfortunately that somebody posted of me, labelling me the world’s ugliest woman. There were four million views to this video, eight seconds long, no sound, thousands of comments. People saying, Lizzie, please, please, just a do the world of favour, put a gun to your head and kill yourself.
4.2 Humour
The speaker used humour to make the speech become more interesting and funny. It will help the audience not feeling bored while listening to her speech. For example:
Speaker: Can you guess what that is? Starts with a ‘B’, can you guys guess it?
(From crowd): “Boys”.
Speaker: Boys?
(Laughter).
Speaker: Bullies! I know what ya’ll are …show more content…
What defines you? Who are you? Is it where you come from? Is it your background? Is it your friends? What is it? What defines who you are as a person? It’s taken me a very long time to figure out what defines me.
2) But then I started realizing, am I going to let the people who called me a monster, define me? Am I going to let the people who said, ‘kill it with fire, ‘define me? No. I’m going to let my goals and my success and my accomplishments be the things that define me, not my outer appearance, not the fact that I’m visually impaired, not the fact that have this syndrome that nobody knows what it is.
3) Now I want to end with asking you again, I want you leave here and ask yourself, what defines you? But remember brave starts here.
4.4 Simile
Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. There is some simile in this speech, for example:
1) I went in with my backpack that looked like a turtle shell
2) I walked up to a little girl, I smiled at her, she looked up at me like I was a monster, and like I was the scariest thing she had ever seen in her