Robert May Rhetorical Devices

In Richmond Virginia a fire at a theatre with numerous deaths led to many actions. One of them being a speech delivered by Rev. Robert May. Within it laid a writing genius to help persuade the crowd to his view. It started with an appeal to the emotions to hinder the rational judgment of crowed and the initial presentation of his goal before his real argument. Transitioning into a section where he presented the arguments for going to the theater and provided a convincing counter argument for all of them. Finally, it ended with a poem to compel further thought from his audience. All in all, he constructed his speech with genius to enable it to affect more people.
When Robert May opens his speech, he appeals to emotions. After such events people commonly act of emotion. His speech makes use of this as much as possible. For the first few pages he goes on about how so many perished in the fire making sure to emphasize the children. If his audience becomes emotional enough their rational thought will slowly lose to emotion allowing him to push an agenda more easily. During this part of the speech he also reveals his agenda to stop good christens form visiting theaters. Overall in his opening he tries to make his audience emotional and hear his agenda. …show more content…
In it he begins with examples of his own life. He uses these to increases his own credibility and make his argument more relatable. After this the entire tone of writing changes. Now it becomes a hit piece on the theatre. Rather than simply bashing it whenever possible he presents many arguments as to how people justify going to the theatre. In addition, he prepared a proper counter argument for each of these to make his format more persuasive. Overall the main part of his speech attempts to persuade people after the first part made them emotional and