In August of 1992, a speech was given by Mary Fisher called, a Whisper of AIDS. Fisher gave this speech in Houston, Texas and many people witnessed it. During this speech, Fisher elaborates on the topic of AIDS and speaks to her audience about the effects of society’s preconceptions. She uses the construction of parallel structure to show listeners that she wants their attention and focus, personification to amplify the differences between society’s actions and the effects and anaphora to once again reiterate the effects of society.
Mary Fisher uses many rhetorical devices and Parallel structure is one. A parallel structure is a comparison of two different things that magnify the contrast between them. Fisher says “I bear a message of challenge, not self congratulation. I want your attention, not your applause.” She says this because she wants to show her audience that she really wants them to listen to what she has to say, however doesn’t want their sympathy. This device is used to emphasize the differences between Fisher wanting people’s sympathy, and her wanting them to pay attention to her message. …show more content…
Personification is used to transfer emotions from one thing to another but is normally used as an exaggeration, by giving an inanimate object the actions of an animate object. Fisher says “We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice and our silence.” This is clearly an exaggeration but it aids us in the transfer of our feelings towards disgust and murder, to society's ignorance and prejudice. The impact of society’s judgements and stereotypes have caused numerous people to die because of it’s lack of knowledge on the topic. AIDS is a serious disease, yet during this time scientists hadn’t known much which lead to the ignorance of society which let to their preceding judgements. Personification is used to transfer emotions and Fisher transfers our emotions of disgust and murder, to ignorance and
Mary Fisher uses many rhetorical devices and Parallel structure is one. A parallel structure is a comparison of two different things that magnify the contrast between them. Fisher says “I bear a message of challenge, not self congratulation. I want your attention, not your applause.” She says this because she wants to show her audience that she really wants them to listen to what she has to say, however doesn’t want their sympathy. This device is used to emphasize the differences between Fisher wanting people’s sympathy, and her wanting them to pay attention to her message. …show more content…
Personification is used to transfer emotions from one thing to another but is normally used as an exaggeration, by giving an inanimate object the actions of an animate object. Fisher says “We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice and our silence.” This is clearly an exaggeration but it aids us in the transfer of our feelings towards disgust and murder, to society's ignorance and prejudice. The impact of society’s judgements and stereotypes have caused numerous people to die because of it’s lack of knowledge on the topic. AIDS is a serious disease, yet during this time scientists hadn’t known much which lead to the ignorance of society which let to their preceding judgements. Personification is used to transfer emotions and Fisher transfers our emotions of disgust and murder, to ignorance and