President Barack Obama announced his Inaugural address, on the 20th of January, 2009, outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America, and as the first African American president of the United States of America. This was a great achievement for the country as well as Obama with racism and other inexcusable prejudices.
During his speech Obama, in a way, comforted America about their past, and reassures them for the future. Knowing that some of the country will doubt him and the choices he will make, he appeals to the audience with pathos and ethos by using rhetorical devices such as tricolons, anaphora and allusion to create a convincing speech. This speech was important, …show more content…
He expresses this by saying “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” He emphasises the word “today” to show his immediate action to change America as a whole, for the better. He refers to the damage that has happened in the past and need to keep moving forward. Here Obama appeals to ethos, persuading his audience that this is the right way to move forward. This is again a tricolon, with clichés included, using language that his audience may use.
Once again Obama builds trust between himself and the country by talking about the countries financial plans would not be hidden from the public, “And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.” By saying this he uses ethos to show his plans for the countries future and economic changes. Letting the public in on this allows them to believe him more, now and in the
During his speech Obama, in a way, comforted America about their past, and reassures them for the future. Knowing that some of the country will doubt him and the choices he will make, he appeals to the audience with pathos and ethos by using rhetorical devices such as tricolons, anaphora and allusion to create a convincing speech. This speech was important, …show more content…
He expresses this by saying “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” He emphasises the word “today” to show his immediate action to change America as a whole, for the better. He refers to the damage that has happened in the past and need to keep moving forward. Here Obama appeals to ethos, persuading his audience that this is the right way to move forward. This is again a tricolon, with clichés included, using language that his audience may use.
Once again Obama builds trust between himself and the country by talking about the countries financial plans would not be hidden from the public, “And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.” By saying this he uses ethos to show his plans for the countries future and economic changes. Letting the public in on this allows them to believe him more, now and in the