Ronald Reagan's Second Inaugural Rhetorical Analysis

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Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States of America, tries to diminish the influence of the federal government in an individual’s life. By doing so, Ronald Reagan created a comparison between the year before (1985) to the year they were in at the time. (1986) Showing all of the positive outcomes in 1986 and the troubles during the year 1985. Reagan uses the appeal to logic to define all of the successful turnouts they’ve had and uses the appeal to emotion to focus more on how the government is too powerful; “taking away opportunities.” When Ronald created these rhetorical devices, it could convince citizens that “private values must be at the heart of public policies,” and that they don’t need …show more content…

Although Ronald acts as if he were on the citizens side, he handles his words carefully by having citizens believe he’s opposing against the government as well and disagrees with them taking away opportunities and freedom. The appeal to emotion would be a direct way of having the people of America go against the the rules that are set by the …show more content…

Doing so, he had the citizens of America think of how the government is violating their rights and making them oppose against the government. He created rhetorical devices like: the appeal to logic, appeal to emotion, and juxtaposition. Giving the rhetorical technique to have people believe that the government has been taking away all of their rights has been an effective outcome because it was encouraging citizens to think that they’re better off with a smaller and less powerful government. The speech he constructed in all was an impactful speech to the people of America because the way he handles his words to have America think they’re making the country a better place, but slowly making the government become a capitalist

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