Rhetorical Analysis Of Donald Trump's Speech

Getting the support of people is no easy task, but with the use of the right techniques at the proper time, drawing people into one’s campaign can become an easy task. By craftily stringing together multiple simple words a huge impact can be left on people. Powerful speeches allow people to gain high positions and also aids in convincing people to elect a person as leader by assuring the citizens that the right person to get the power is the one giving the speech. The elected nominee from the Republican party for president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, gave his acceptance speech on July twenty first at the republican national convention. Trump’s acceptance speech contained many speech techniques such as pathos, logos, and alliteration which vastly aided Trump in delivering a powerful speech which swayed many to his side. …show more content…
When logos is used the speaker is hoping to open the audiences’ eyes to the numbers involved with the point being presented and moving them with either good statistics or bad statistics. This technique pushes to turn on the part of the brain which processes logic and reasoning which can lead the audience to choose the speaker’s side if they agree with the facts being presented. Donald Trump brought of the statistics of the increase in homicide cases and killings in america. “Homicides last year increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent. They are up nearly 60% in nearby Baltimore.” (Trump, acceptance speech) states Trump. By explaining to the audience how drastically the kill rates have increased Trump is hoping to touch the brain’s conscious and making the crowd choose him because they want those numbers to