On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a preventive action to keep the U.S Pacific Fleet from interfering. The attack left 18 damaged or destroyed ships, nearly 300 airplanes destroyed, and more than 2,500 people killed; all in less than two hours. The morning after, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed both the nation and congress on this attack. The speech he gave is considered one of the most successful and influential speeches of all time due to his use of pathos, ethos, logos, and repetition. Pathos is the appeal to the emotion of one’s audience which President Roosevelt did through the use of diction which influenced anger in his audience. Throughout his speech, he uses the word “deliberately” many
