Rhetorical Analysis Of Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai uses examples of argumentative techniques to advance her cause for quality and attainable education worldwide. She builds her argument by using persuasive techniques such as facts, emotion, rhetorical questions, and figurative language throughout her speech. Yousafzai uses the elements of ethos, or the ethical approach, pathos, or the emotional approach, and logos, or the logical approach, to construct her argument and create a professional, yet relatable tone. Ethos is used when Yousafzai references other figures who brought great change to the world that gave speeches on the same stage she was on. She mentions influential people such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping that her beliefs and actions will bring about a change as lasting as theirs. Pathos is used throughout the speech in Yousafzai’s personal anecdotes. She tells the stories of drawing mathematical

She uses repetition at the beginning of many paragraphs when she says “dear sisters and brothers”. This repetition puts in the reader/listener’s mind that they are close to Yousafzai. The phrase puts the speech at a much more personal level. Yousafzai also uses asyndeton when she says “we must work… not wait. Not just the politicians and the world leaders, we all need to contribute. Me. You. We. It is our duty.” The single words in their own little sentences are emphasized greatly to show their importance and the importance of the statement as a whole. At the very end of the speech, Yousafzai uses anaphora to show the significance of the words she says. She repeats “let this be the last time” over and over followed by things such as “that a child loses life in war” and “that a girl is forced into early child marriage”. She shows how important it is that these things need to end, and that this generation needs to be the one that ends