Rhetorical Analysis Of Princess Diana

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The eulogy of humanitarian/Princess Diana is a speech told to the world, that a great person had sadly left this world too early. Lord Spencer, Diana’s brother, addresses the world the news about the mournful loss of his sister. Spencer uses rhetorical strategies such as pathos, diction, and syntax to tell the world how big a loss Diana is not only for her family, but also for the whole world. Spencer connects to people’s emotions throughout the eulogy. He tells of the time that Diana once “explained to him that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected.” She was a humanitarian unlike any other. The line tell the listener, that although Diana may have looked happy

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