Anaphora

Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” and Abraham Lincoln’s “ Gettysburg Address” their speeches contributed in the support towards black rights and equality. Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech in 1863, in a military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after the North won the Civil War won the fight towards supporting the anti-slavery movement. Dr. King delivered his speech in August 28,1963 on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C to bring hope in reaching for equality for the black…

former United States President, Ronald Reagan, to the American people on June 11, 2004. She honors Ronald Reagan’s legacy in her speech by attesting to his character as a leader, friend, and an American. Thatcher accomplishes this through parallelism, anaphora and juxtaposition. She also creates a fluctuating tone through her contrasting diction of playfulness and seriousness. Thatcher opens the eulogy with parallelism, “We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man,” By…

he compares the positive in life to the negative to come to the conclusion that if it were not for the negative, the point of life would be empty and everything would be ordinary. In Edward Estlin Cumming's poem, "If", he uses diction, shifts, and anaphora to create a peaceful tone. I chose this poem because I strongly agree with Cummings belief that without the bad and the differences in the world, no one would be their true self, only what society wished them to be. E. E. Cummings uses…

Thoreau’s essay, “Resistance to Civil Government” describes his beliefs on society and how a person's initial belief is the right one DOUBLE CHECK THIS. Thoreau's essay contains crucial rhetorical devices such as polysyndetons, rhetorical questions, and anaphoras, that help create a well-developed essay that clearly conveys Thoreau's message of individualism and only working to benefit the government. (Indent)One of the rhetorical devices that Thoreau uses is polysyndeton, this slows the…

inspired him to write a book called The Audacity of Hope. Throughout The 2004 Keynote Address, Barack Obama uses multiple devices to sway voters to chose John Kerry as president, these devices include, anaphora, vivid imagery, as well as dramatic sentence structure. During his speech, Obama uses anaphora to help illustrate Kerry’s goals as well as why Kerry should be president. An example of this is when Obama starts…

the U.S. for his hope of peace between the participating countries of the Cold War. The ex-president’s tone exhibits an emphasizing sound to his words in order to appeal a feeling of motivation to the citizens of the United States with the use of anaphora and antimetabole. In amidst of the Cold War, Kennedy is elected to be the U.S.’s 35th president and he is hopeful that this war will end with peace and unity. Kennedy appeals to the audience by including other countries in his speech…

had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a crowd of protesters on august 28, 1963 in Washington,D.C. about equality and how everyone should be equal. Martin Luther King uses metaphors, parallel, and anaphora to prove his point that everyone should be equal. Martin Luther King uses metaphors to emphasize different or similar qualities of freedom. “And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom(1). Blacks want…

Atticus Finch used ethos, pathos, logos, anaphoras, and rhetorical questions in his closing argument to make the jury think about their opinion based on the evidence. He uses these to persuade the jury to believe that Tom was in fact innocent. He appealed to the jury's sense of reason, logic, emotions, and the overall appeal of the speaker or writer himself. He makes the jury think about the facts, and think about the credibility of Bob and Mayella side of the story. Even though the facts show…

if everything was just a jumbled mess? Use of language within writings is just as important as all other aspects of writing as listed above. The Story of an Eyewitness, written by Jack London, is phenomenal in its usage of allusions, imagery, and anaphora. To begin, many future occurrences are alluded to in The Story of an Eyewitness. Although at the beginning of the story only a small portion of the city was up in flames the account that "There was no opposing the flames. There was no…

audience about the effects of society’s preconceptions. She uses the construction of parallel structure to show listeners that she wants their attention and focus, personification to amplify the differences between society’s actions and the effects and anaphora to once again reiterate the effects of society. Mary Fisher uses many rhetorical devices and Parallel structure is one. A parallel structure is a comparison of two different things that magnify the contrast between them. Fisher says “I…