Former President Barack Obama gave his Inaugural Address in 2009. This speech was meant to inform the American people that it is time to change. Obama’s elocution effectively uses repetition, parallelism, and anaphora to display his implication. Obama opens his Inaugural Address to the American people by thanking former President Bush for his service, he shifts to acknowledging that America is in the midst of a crisis. He appeals to the businesslike audience by admitting that we are at war with ourselves. His excessive use of pathos precisely moved the audience “ Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred”(4). President Obama's use of diction appeals to the audience by talking about the problems we are facing
