At the 2004 Democratic Keystone Address President Barack Obama, who at the time was Senator Obama, gave a speech called “The Audacity of Hope”. Before giving his speech President Barack Obama was a virtually unknown democratic Senator in Illinois; after giving his speech President Barack Obama was known in virtually every politically adept household in America. Throughout his speech Obama uses structure and anaphora to establish himself to the nation under the guise of giving a speech to convince the American people that they should vote for John Kerry in the upcoming Presidential election.
The majority of the “The Audacity of Hope” speech’s structure focuses mainly on Obama himself and not on the democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Out of the forty-three paragraphs in Obama’s speech, just over nine of them, nine, directly involve John Kerry. Out of the thirty-four some odd paragraphs left …show more content…
Twenty-two of the twenty-five paragraphs that Obama uses to talk about his own beliefs contain anaphora. The repetition of the phrase “I believe” in paragraphs thirty-nine through forty-one is one of many examples of Obama using anaphora to tell the American people of his own ideas, “I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity”, 39, “I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair”, 40, “I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us”, 41. The repetition of the phrase “I believe” enforces that the beliefs Obama is talking about are not the beliefs of John Kerry, the man Obama is trying to convince America to vote for, but are his own personal
The majority of the “The Audacity of Hope” speech’s structure focuses mainly on Obama himself and not on the democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Out of the forty-three paragraphs in Obama’s speech, just over nine of them, nine, directly involve John Kerry. Out of the thirty-four some odd paragraphs left …show more content…
Twenty-two of the twenty-five paragraphs that Obama uses to talk about his own beliefs contain anaphora. The repetition of the phrase “I believe” in paragraphs thirty-nine through forty-one is one of many examples of Obama using anaphora to tell the American people of his own ideas, “I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity”, 39, “I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair”, 40, “I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us”, 41. The repetition of the phrase “I believe” enforces that the beliefs Obama is talking about are not the beliefs of John Kerry, the man Obama is trying to convince America to vote for, but are his own personal