The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony. His use of situational irony helped show that even if he has gotten a bad break, his still considers himself to be the luckiest man on earth which helped convey his message, he has had and still will have a good life even with his bad break. Lou is able
