Rhetorical device

Steve Jobs turned out to be very successful even though he wasn’t a college graduate. Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement speech is considered to be very effective and moving, because of his use of his rhetorical devices. Steve Jobs shares three stories of his past to play upon his rhetorical strategies. While speaking to the Stanford graduates who are ready to start a new chapter in their life; Jobs uses love, loss, discovery, death and adversity to persuade them not to give up as they continue…

examples of logical appeals, the redirection of anger, and forms of repetition, Malcolm X effectively convinces Black America to fight for racial, social, and economic equality by supporting the idea of Black Nationalism. To begin, Malcolm X uses rhetorical devices such as repetition to show why Black America should push for racial and social…

The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony.…

Swift uses satire in his essay “A Modest Proposal” to criticize a number of problems that Ireland was facing in the early 1700s. He focuses on the overpopulation problem that was affecting Ireland and offers a “simple” solution; sell the children of the poor to the rich to be eaten. He goes on to explain how this will not only help with overpopulation and the economy but how it would benefit the parent/parents of the children that are being sold. Throughout his essay, he also discreetly and…

In Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel successfully utilizes a variety of rhetorical devices to persuade her audience to feel and think a certain way, especially through the use of Shakespearean motifs. Mandel uses Shakespearean motifs to bring up the topic of tragedy and devastation to show how much people will miss from their old world―the simple, convenient things in life―after devastation hits. By emphasizing this message, Mandel is also able to show that through art and culture, humanity…

Before started working on essay 2, I already gained some experience of analyzing texts in high school. By that time, I analyzed fictions with some rhetorical devices, such as metaphor and personification. I mainly focused on how to appreciate the fiction, or what made the fiction worth appreciating, but I did not read many persuasive essays. When preparing for Essay 2, I went over my past essays about analyzing fictions. I wrote about how do the writer use the change of seasons to imply the…

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…

stereotypical woman. The story revolves around two women, Alida Slade and Grace Ansley. The women hide passive aggressive undertones and back-handed compliments under a sickly-sweet smile and a pretend innocence. Throughout the story, Edith Wharton uses rhetorical devices to help the reader uncover how petty the women truly act. To convey her message, Wharton relies heavily on the tone of the words she uses to describe Slade and Ansley. She chooses powerful words that convey a sarcastic and…

violence and riots. “When the man and wife and little boy took the pet dog for it’s walk, they no longer paused to admire this show of roses or that perfect lawn, they were hidden behind an array of different varieties of security fences, walls and devices,”(15). This detail shows how, individuals that shield themselves from society end up missing out in the good. Similarly to Quindlen, Gordimer uses a rhetoric technique, irony, to convey her ideas. It’s ironic that the little boy’s parents…

Haneen Halisi Professor Eberle English 1A 22 September 2016 Rhetorical Analysis: Why John F. Kennedys Speech Was Effective In the early sixties equality in the United States was not enforced however segregation because of the color of a person 's skin was. On June 11th 1963 John F Kennedy addresses the Civil Rights Movement. His speech was written in response to the U.S. National Guard that was sent to protect the African American students who were enrolling at the University of Alabama. Kennedy…