Ronald Reagan D Day Speech Rhetorical Devices

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President Ronald Reagan's Speech about D-Day is a very powerful speech. The speech was about the US Army Rangers that landed on the beaches in normandy France on June 6th, 1944. The speech was given in front of the memorial of the 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions who gave their lives on that cliff. This speech that uses a rhetoric style of writing. As a rhetoric style of writing it uses the devices of Logos, Ethos, Pathos, Telos, and Kairos to give a great speech.
The use of Logos is shown when he states “I think I know what you may be thinking right now -- thinking "we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day." Well everyone was, he explains that even though that all the remaining veterans who fought for that cliff

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