Barnard College, Meryl Streep
SUBSTANCE/CONTENT:
“Hello, I’m Meryl Streep and today, Class of 2010, I am very honored and I am humbled to be asked to pass on tips and inspiration to you for achieving success in the next part of your lives.” Image learning about success from one of the most successful actresses. She begins to explain that her success depended on putting her problems on other people, which is not the best idea. She then goes on to explain how she became an expert at her career and the skills she needed to become great, such as kissing. Shortly after that, she explains that women survive by pretending and acting because women have to change who they are for everyone else, just as she did in high school for boys to notice her. …show more content…
Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending or acting is a very valuable life skill and we all do it all the time.” An anaphora is a word or phase that is repeated at the beginning of several consecutive sentences and is used to add emphasis. Streep managed to add emphasis in her speech by repeatedly saying what pretending is.
Personification - “...my brain woke up.” Personification is giving a nonhuman object human capabilities. It is used to engage the listeners and allow the speaker to enhance their speech and make it more effective. A brain does not just wake up like an animal or person, but the quote allows to listener to visualize a brain being “woken up” such as Streep’s did.
Quote - “Emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion.” Quotes are typically from inspiring sources and are used to support a speaker's intentions. Streep used this quote from Carl Jung to explain the importance of emotions and empathy because it is necessary for happiness and happiness makes us successful (her …show more content…
Today, there are 2.3 million.” The use of statistics is for the speaker to support their argument with actual evidence. It makes their points more valid and sometimes more serious, which is how the use of these statistics helped Stevenson's speech become more serious and eye opening.
Rhetorical Question - “Do we deserve to kill?” A rhetorical question is a question asked by the speaker that makes the audience start to thinking. It can be a simple question or an eye opening question, but either way it forces the audience to start thinking. When Steveson asked this question, a majority of the people listening most likely started putting the death penalty idea into a different light and started thinking about it, which is what he was aiming for. Anaphora - “We love innovation. We love technology. We love creativity. We
SUBSTANCE/CONTENT:
“Hello, I’m Meryl Streep and today, Class of 2010, I am very honored and I am humbled to be asked to pass on tips and inspiration to you for achieving success in the next part of your lives.” Image learning about success from one of the most successful actresses. She begins to explain that her success depended on putting her problems on other people, which is not the best idea. She then goes on to explain how she became an expert at her career and the skills she needed to become great, such as kissing. Shortly after that, she explains that women survive by pretending and acting because women have to change who they are for everyone else, just as she did in high school for boys to notice her. …show more content…
Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending or acting is a very valuable life skill and we all do it all the time.” An anaphora is a word or phase that is repeated at the beginning of several consecutive sentences and is used to add emphasis. Streep managed to add emphasis in her speech by repeatedly saying what pretending is.
Personification - “...my brain woke up.” Personification is giving a nonhuman object human capabilities. It is used to engage the listeners and allow the speaker to enhance their speech and make it more effective. A brain does not just wake up like an animal or person, but the quote allows to listener to visualize a brain being “woken up” such as Streep’s did.
Quote - “Emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion.” Quotes are typically from inspiring sources and are used to support a speaker's intentions. Streep used this quote from Carl Jung to explain the importance of emotions and empathy because it is necessary for happiness and happiness makes us successful (her …show more content…
Today, there are 2.3 million.” The use of statistics is for the speaker to support their argument with actual evidence. It makes their points more valid and sometimes more serious, which is how the use of these statistics helped Stevenson's speech become more serious and eye opening.
Rhetorical Question - “Do we deserve to kill?” A rhetorical question is a question asked by the speaker that makes the audience start to thinking. It can be a simple question or an eye opening question, but either way it forces the audience to start thinking. When Steveson asked this question, a majority of the people listening most likely started putting the death penalty idea into a different light and started thinking about it, which is what he was aiming for. Anaphora - “We love innovation. We love technology. We love creativity. We