J.K Rowling is an exceptional author and is seen as a big role model in the modern world. She continuously demonstrates her ambition to succeed in every novel she gets published. She has taught many people the importance of failure and why on the contrary of some beliefs, it’s actually a good thing. She speaks about this concept in her 2008 Harvard commencement speech. J.K Rowling emphasises three key points in her speech which are to pursue your dreams and interests even if they don’t lead to success, success can be born from failure, and that imagination can help a person relate and empathise with others. To delivery this message successfully to the 2008 class of Harvard she used rhetorical devices such as anecdote, repetition, humor, and anthorism.
J.K Rowling, throughout her speech, uses many …show more content…
Using this rhetorical device J.K Rowling emphasizes certain parts in her speech. Such as, “ I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea.” She repeatedly uses first person point of view to strengthen the idea that at the time, when she had to fight against people’s expectations, it was truly all about her and not others. In this quote she came to the realization that even though she failed it didn’t mean the end of the world. J.K Rowling didn't only repeat the use of first person point of view but she also repeated an important word all throughout her speech, failure. “Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.” She uses the word failure at the beginning of every sentence in this quote to create emphasis on the topic that from failure itself came success. Using repetition with the word failure also helped J.K. Rowling to revert back to her main
J.K Rowling, throughout her speech, uses many …show more content…
Using this rhetorical device J.K Rowling emphasizes certain parts in her speech. Such as, “ I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea.” She repeatedly uses first person point of view to strengthen the idea that at the time, when she had to fight against people’s expectations, it was truly all about her and not others. In this quote she came to the realization that even though she failed it didn’t mean the end of the world. J.K Rowling didn't only repeat the use of first person point of view but she also repeated an important word all throughout her speech, failure. “Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.” She uses the word failure at the beginning of every sentence in this quote to create emphasis on the topic that from failure itself came success. Using repetition with the word failure also helped J.K. Rowling to revert back to her main