Rhetorical Analysis
In Oslo on December tenth, 2014, Malala Yousafzai gave a Nobel Lecture as the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Her speech brings to attention children all over the world who do not have access to education and calls on leaders to help fix this issue. She says, “It is time to take action...so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education” (“Malala”). Yousafzai uses rhetorical techniques, including logos, ethos, pathos, figurative language, syntax, and repetition, to persuade the audience to help give children the opportunity to be educated.
Yousafzai uses logos, ethos, and pathos for persuasion. First, an appeal to logos is illustrated when she says, “I am those 66 million girls who …show more content…
For example, she uses a metaphor to appeal to the audience when she says, “We had a thirst for education” about her and her friends. This makes education seem, like water, to be a necessity of life. Therefore, the audience feels that every child needs education and that it is important to fight for it. Additionally, Yousafzai’s sentence structure is significant when she asks, “Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?” By phrasing this as a question, Yousafzai prompts the people in the audience to search for an answer. They likely find that there is not an acceptable reason why education differs this much in these countries, and they ultimately come to share Yousafzai’s belief that education should be equal in all places. Toward the end of her speech, Yousafzai says, “Let this be the last time that a girl or a boy spends their childhood in a factory.” She continues with three more similar statements, each beginning with “Let this be the last time....” This repetition motivates the audience to take action immediately since it emphasizes the idea that this should be the “last time,” or that these occurrences need to end now. In her Nobel Lecture, Malala Yousafzai persuades the audience to help provide needing children with an education. She achieves
In Oslo on December tenth, 2014, Malala Yousafzai gave a Nobel Lecture as the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Her speech brings to attention children all over the world who do not have access to education and calls on leaders to help fix this issue. She says, “It is time to take action...so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education” (“Malala”). Yousafzai uses rhetorical techniques, including logos, ethos, pathos, figurative language, syntax, and repetition, to persuade the audience to help give children the opportunity to be educated.
Yousafzai uses logos, ethos, and pathos for persuasion. First, an appeal to logos is illustrated when she says, “I am those 66 million girls who …show more content…
For example, she uses a metaphor to appeal to the audience when she says, “We had a thirst for education” about her and her friends. This makes education seem, like water, to be a necessity of life. Therefore, the audience feels that every child needs education and that it is important to fight for it. Additionally, Yousafzai’s sentence structure is significant when she asks, “Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?” By phrasing this as a question, Yousafzai prompts the people in the audience to search for an answer. They likely find that there is not an acceptable reason why education differs this much in these countries, and they ultimately come to share Yousafzai’s belief that education should be equal in all places. Toward the end of her speech, Yousafzai says, “Let this be the last time that a girl or a boy spends their childhood in a factory.” She continues with three more similar statements, each beginning with “Let this be the last time....” This repetition motivates the audience to take action immediately since it emphasizes the idea that this should be the “last time,” or that these occurrences need to end now. In her Nobel Lecture, Malala Yousafzai persuades the audience to help provide needing children with an education. She achieves