Queen Elizabeth's Speech Rhetorical Devices

In Elizabeth's speech at Tilbury, she uses rhetor in many different ways to persuade her troops that they will have a victory. Many different persuasion techniques were used, ad verecundiam, pathos, emotional metaphors and other techniques are used. To begin, Queen Elizabeth uses ad verecundiam multiple times throughout her speech. “I have always so behaved myself that under God, I have placed my chiefest strength…” (line 4). Some predict that this gave her troops more confidence because Elizabeth basically compared them to God.[Prediction] Next, Elizabeth stated “to which rather than only dishonour shall grow me…”(line 13) which persuaded her troops to do better and not dishonor their queen.[rephrase] The final use of ad verecundiam …show more content…
It was only so powerful by the fact that she was trying to put fear into the army, if she would have not used that phrase then her troops may not have had the same amount of adrenalin going in.[cause and effect] Pathos is demonstrated to persuade her troops in the simple phrase Elizabeth vocalizes “to live and die amongst you all.” (line 7) In this phrase and throughout the entire speech she is empowering her troops. To empower means to give the authority to do something which is exactly what Elizabeth's goal is.[define relevant term] In the same way, “I have placed all my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts…”(line 4-5) Imagine, a person serving in a war and is nervous to go into battle hears that the commander has placed strength in that person, they would more than likely be reassured and be less nervous to fight.[imagery] “I have the body of a feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too.”(line 10-11) To further explain, Elizabeth wanted to knock her troops down and pity her only to build them right back up but only