Rhetoric

prewriting step of Henry and Little, I started by narrowing down my options for strategies and rhetorical devices to use as supporting evidence (Appendix D). From both Henry and Little’s speeches, I found a strong strategy used by the two was the rhetoric of their tone; therefore I decided through the prewriting process to compare their development of tone through their uses…

Since 1969, America has seen an extensive range of presidents in terms of style, personality, rhetoric and overall demeanor towards the American people. A good deal of these qualities overlap in candidates who have won the election. For example most president-elects have said they have strong family values, support a strong American military, and promise to be tough on crime. While these stances have been pitched differently over the years, they all share the same basic ethos; reassurance. It…

Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal certainly carries a very strong impact and is a powerful piece of writing that can leave an audience stunned. It is a satirical narrative, about overpopulation and famines in Ireland, and Swift’s opinion on what can be done to solve it. The “proposal” he had in mind was that people simply fatten up and eat the children, because he believes that they serve no purpose and in actuality are merely contributing to the complication at hand. Swift also uses…

National American Woman’s Suffrage Association on July 22 of the year 1905. Her speech was well accepted in the association, but it wasn’t just because she jotted down a quick speech in her free time. Florence Kelley used very specific principles of rhetoric in her speech. She knew her audience, and knew what to say to persuade them. Logos, ethos, and pathos are all present in the speech, and that is why it was successful. Pathos is evident mainly in paragraphs 7 and 8. Here, Kelley makes the…

practice avidly to this day, freedom of speech. Most people would agree with Thomas Jefferson in the video that a country without the freedom of speech is a tyrannical country. If it wasn’t for freedom of speech, we would not be able to write this rhetoric in the manner that we choose. The video also uses Ethos mildly. In The American Presidents, Washington to Tyler: What They Did, What They Said, What Was Said About Them, with Full Source Notes Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to James Madison…

Rhetorical Analysis of Marc Antony’s Funeral Speech Marc Antony’s speech at the funeral of Julius Caesar is widely regarded as one of the pivotal moments in Shakespeare’s play, “Julius Caesar”. Antony uses this opportunity to sway the crowd against the conspirators of Caesar’s assassination, and undermine Brutus without directly appearing to do so. Shakespeare uses the rhetorical devices repetition, pathos, irony, and diction to achieve such a momentous effect on both characters of the play, and…

presidential election of 2008 John McCain, in an attempt to close the gap between genders, choose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin in her Vice Presidential acceptance speech implicated why she would be a superior nominee. With her effective use of rhetoric she executed a nationally accepted speech. Not only revealing her political visions, but recognizing John McCain’s credibility and condemning Barack Obama. During her pronouncement, Palin illuminates McCain's qualities- simultaneously…

Delivered on August 19th, 1992 at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, Mary Fisher gave a speech about the negative stigma surrounding the topic of HIV and Aids. This speech was made at a time where AIDS was still an extremely taboo topic, and it was delivered shortly after her own HIV diagnosis. Fisher’s main purpose in her speech was to convince the crowd at the convention that anyone is susceptible to disease and that is why she urges, “the Republican Party to lift the shroud…

Analysis of a Visual Social Justice Argument How many billboards can be thought of that present an opinion that is different than the social norm? Not many? The billboard created for the release of the Deadpool movie in February of 2016 has many elements that can be analyzed. Pathos is used by the creators of the billboard to appeal to audiences in an uncommon way; reversing the societal standards of gender roles by enticing women with sex and causing men to want to be like Deadpool.…

Oratory, through my technique, presents itself in the form of a grandiose sentiment to the subject at hand, where my methods of presentation aggrandize even the most mundane topics. Uncharacteristically developed from my nervousness and stern demeanor, oratory was not a skill I knew possible within myself until I was forced to stand before a crowd. In some convergence of anxiety and want for respect amongst my peers, I unconsciously spoke with such a stentorian voice that my audience was left…