The Rhetorical Analysis Of Malala Yousafzai's Speech

Malala Yousafzai 's speech is a demonstration of everything that makes a speech persuasive; the usage of pathos, the usage of personal experiences, humor, and parrallel structure,,all of which contribute to the author’s main message that children and women worldwide should have access to education. She believes that the sympathetic audience should believe that children worldwide should be provided an education, and take action by asking the world leaders to unite and make education their top priority, and assure that basic education is not enough. The nobel lecture audience can clearly see the appeal of this speech, whether they be of people of importance or simply an average person, because they can all relate to her emotions, which demonstrate …show more content…
The speech was saturated with rhetorical devices, all of which contributed to Yousafzai’s argument. However, Yousafzai could have used more statistics. Considering she is talking about education and learning, She could have placed statistics in the second section, where she was talking about the issue regarding education from women and children. She could have elaborated on the amount of uneducated children per country throughout the world regarding poverty, in order to further demonstrate her claim.Yousafzai’s lack of statistics was quite shocking, but she makes up for it with her use of parallel structure, personal experiences and humor. Overall, I feel that this speech was very effective because Yousafzai presented herself as one who is normal through the usage of her rhetorical devices, but can bring change to the world. She is able to relate to the audience and deliver her message clearly and concisely, all of which molds a great