Anaphora

questioning his life, but also presents that he knew there was no way he would ever receive “salvation” from this hell. He felt trapped like a slave with no freedom, and the doctors never understood what he was going through to raise his spirits. The anaphora really highlights the struggle inside of Joe that is causing him to feel confused, but yet lonely. He was a mere experiment to the medical world, a world who knew nothing…

brains, and hope. The first type of figurative language King used is anaphoras. Starting in paragraph two with the phrase "something is happening, something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world," and the phrase "I would," in the next six paragraphs. King used “I can remember” to start many sentences and “We are saying,” as another anaphora. Along with many other examples of these, he used anaphora to make his point known, to appeal to their emotion. People learn…

When people believe something is wrong, they will usually complain about it but it takes a special kind of person to effectively stand up for what they believe in. When people stand up for what they believe in, in a provocative way we call it radical. Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were two very important people who stood up for what they believed in and they did so in powerful ways. They both addressed their problems in similar ways by writing letters in order to get their…

comforted America about their past, and reassures them for the future. Knowing that some of the country will doubt him and the choices he will make, he appeals to the audience with pathos and ethos by using rhetorical devices such as tricolons, anaphora and allusion to create a convincing speech. This speech was important,…

his efforts, it was up to him to convince these corporations to lower their prices and wages once again. In a unifying speech in 1962, John F. Kennedy argued for the lowering of the prices and wages using rhetorical strategies such as an impactful anaphora to build a sense of camaraderie, drawing attention to emotional situations to pull at the heartstrings of the audience, and presenting substantial statistics to reinforce his claims. All of these specific details are used in order to establish…

elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as anaphora. One example of O’Brien using anaphora in his novel is “Forty three years ago, and the war occurred a half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will sometimes lead to a story, which makes it forever… Stories are for…

Throughout history, how an audience reacts to a leader’s message can shape the future in an entirely new form. The speech “I Have A Dream” given in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became arguably one of the most well known speeches in American history. As a minister and seasoned orator of sermons, giving a passionately driven speech was not an uncommon occurrence for Dr. King. This influential speech was delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and…

In John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address, Kennedy uses authoritative and assertive diction, rhetorical devices such as anaphora and antithesis, to name a few, and allusions to current world issues to persuade the world that even though there is a global fragility at the moment with the actions of every American, the United States will survive the Cold War, because only those in the audience, whether American or not, who take matters into their own hands can make positive progress during this…

include Title III to prevent the mistreatment of African Americans from police. He adopts a reprimanding tone in order to compel listeners to join the march and Congress to add Title III to the bill. John Lewis uses aposiopesis, rhetorical questions, anaphora, and repetition to convey his message in his speech in Washington. (Ixcel Guzman) In…

our very own language in the proper form. Some people oppose this and find that if we all speak English within the proper context, we could communicate towards one another to a better extent. In “Why Good English Is Good for You,” John Simon uses anaphora, similes, personification, allusions, and rhetorical questions to convince readers of Esquire magazine that if the base aspects of our society were set up to help kids learn proper english, they would communicate more effectively and our…