The feeling of losing someone near to you can devastate you and you feel like there is nothing you can do about it. Others have had that same feeling too. When Ronal Reagan died, the United States mourned for him. Margaret Thatcher, a close friend of his, and talks about him. Thatcher analyzes how Reagan was one of the best presidents and his loss will be remembered.
Thatcher starts off talking about Reagan’s personality and what type of person he was. When she does this, she is appealing to the audience’s emotion and empathizes with them. His light humor tended to be ironic as he was happy in a world where there were issues like communism or as he called, “the ‘evil empire.’” This exaggerates how American viewed communists as they were wrong or how later on, “distrust” them. She continues then to reminiscent about him and she even tells the audience that she was close to him by mentioning “Ronnie,” a shortened version of Ronald. As she continues, she mentions how he faced others who opposed his opinion of governing a nation. In doing so, she repeats the word “others” three times to put emphasis on it that to
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When Reagan fixed the old problems the present looks back on, new problems arise in a new world. She explains that Reagan’s eight years in office were the “the most important years of all our lives.” This is an exaggeration to show that what he accomplished in a small time frame, most wouldn’t have accomplished every. He handled problems like no other, straight forward and dealt with things so confidently. She has a tone of confidence and strength. “He knew almost instinctively what to do.” As it has tone, it also has syntax in it. It stands alone as a paragraph, a simple sentence. It emphasizes how strong and how confident Reagan was. When the communists at the time were pushing against his allies, Reagan would support those allies with confidence and
In the passage the author addresses who Ellen Terry is. Not just an actress, but a writer, and a painter. Ellen Terry was remembered as Ellen Terry, not for her roles in plays, pieces of writing, or paintings. Throughout the essay the author portrays Ellen Terry in all aspects of her life as an extraordinary person by using rhetorical techniques such as tone, rhetorical question, and comparison.
Margaret Thatcher, ex-prime minister of the UK, uses many different rhetorical devices in her eulogy to Ronald Regan. She effectively employs many different strategies. They all help make her writing more powerful.
The author uses hyperbole to exaggerate the difficulties of the job that Reagan encountered. Thatcher said, “When the world threw problems at the White house…” this is obviously an exaggeration because you can’t literally throw problems at the white house. She is trying to imply to the people that he had a very demanding job and that he did the best he could no matter how difficult the task was. She appeals to the audience by making them comforted when she explains he did an amazing job when he was in office. Thatcher comforts the American people in many ways than just her rhetorical devices.
To apply this rhetorical strategy, she incorporates several crucial phrases and words to which one can appertain. One example of Thatcher’s use of diction occurs in line twenty-three of her eulogy when she refers to Reagan as “Ronnie.” While to the reader, this name is but a sobriquet Thatcher uses for Reagan, one must identify her use of diction to understand her intention for using this name. After analyzing the word’s connotation instead of its denotation, the reader can discover that she incorporates this word into her eulogy to give the reader a thorough comprehension of the friendship they shared. For the reader, this diction permits him or her to identify Thatcher’s credibility, and for Thatcher, she strengthens her claim by validating her relation with Reagan. Thatcher, however, goes beyond reinforcing her claim through credibility; upon analysis of her eulogy, one can recognize her use of diction to depict historical occurrences surrounding Reagan’s presidency. The reader can identify an example of this tactic when Thatcher states in lines five and six, “[Reagan] sought to mend America’s wounded spirit” (Thatcher). On a superficial level, this
In the second paragraph he says, “We come to Berlin, we American Presidents, because it’s our duty to speak in this place of freedom.” By assigning speaking in places of freedom to his duties and allocating the cause for prosperity of the western world to freedom, Reagan establishes his ethos as an advocate for “good.” He continues to gain the trust of his audience by displaying his personal concern for the well-being of those in Berlin, in Germany, and in the western world as well as his sympathy for those that reside in the totalitarian state. By revealing his intentions to promote prosperity, Reagan creates a common goal between him and his audience, demonstrating his sincerity and honesty and allowing the rest of the text to be easily
On January 12, 1780, Abigail Adams, former First Lady, wrote to her son, John Quincy Adams, while he was abroad with his father and brother. Adams addressed to her son and future President to maintain his spirit to learn and grow. She expressed his purpose through her motherly tone, various religious and historical allusions, use of logos, rhetorical question with simple syntax and use of metaphors.
According to Helen Sword (2012 pg.48), “A carefully crafted sentence welcomes its reader like a comfortable rocking chair” and “helps its reader navigate tricky terrain like a well-hewn walking stick”. Therefore, varying styles and methods of sentences are an important construct in the written language. Hence through examining Julia Gillard’s and Rebecca Sloan’s use of sentence structure and grammar, this rhetorical analysis will attempt to explore how differing mediums and cultural contexts of writers portrays their credibility which are effectively used to convey a particular agenda to their intended audience.
To sum briefly, Margret Thatcher did many positive things to the British country, as well as bad things. On the one hand, she fought for her country, regardless of how much it would cost the country, for instance taking back the Falkland Islands. On the other hand, she changed people’s view on women and she was part of making Britain what it is today. However, she was also responsible for high unemployment, poverty and a divide in the social
Have you seen any of the recent campaign advertisements that have been published by the 2016 presidential candidates? Presidential candidates are known for campaigning through different media outlets, such as television advertisements, social media, and their party rallies. In these advertisements, the candidates bash their opponents and try to show you why you should vote for them, and why you should not vote for their opponent. Hillary Clinton’s advertisements have really stood out to me and have been able to grab my attention. Particularly the “Role Models” video, which displays young children watching Donald Trump make discriminatory and offensive comments on the television screen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign advertisement effectively gets
As for the rhetorical effectiveness, I thought they did a good job of making you like Lady Gaga and her support she shows to her fans. I have been a fan of Lady Gaga’s music, but I was not aware of the monsters community. It made me believe that she’s a better person than I originally knew about her because so many young people these days suffer with self-esteem. It’s nice to see a famous person with millions of dollars help others with their popularity. I believe the author’s did accomplish their purpose which was to send a message that Lady Gaga is putting her fame into good use. Based on the article, we see her monsters identifying themselves and talk about how much they think Lady Gaga is an inspiration for them. It leads us readers
Threw out the article judy blmue wrote about censorship a personal view she takes her readers on journey threw her eyes and makes them hop in her shoes to take a test drive threw her life and show her ins and outs of how she experience and dealt with censorship , with coming in contact ,learning ,and rebelling against it. She does in her article by using some clever yet effective ways of using the Rhetorical Strategies to get the reader to think a certain way and feel a certain way. Jude blume use the rhetorical strategies ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively persuade the reader and inform the reader that censorship is not up to a group of people but a personal choice.
In, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” written by Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founding Fathers) in 1747, brought up the disparities that were between men and women within the judicial system. Also, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” also briefly points out, how religion has been intertwined with politics. All throughout “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker,” Benjamin Franklin uses very intense diction and syntax to help support what he is trying to express to the rest of society. Also writing this speech in the view point of a women, greatly helps establish what he is trying to say. If Benjamin Franklin was to write it as a man, the speech my have not had the same passionate effect as it currently has.
In the first paragraph, she states, “He sought to mend America’s wounded spirit. Such as the nickname “Ronnie,” also when she says, “I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of our lives.” It indicates how long they have known each other and how true her statements were. By doing this, she shows just how close she is to Reagan. Thatcher must have been really close to Reagan to be able to have a nickname for him.
On November 8th 2016 the election of the new president of the United states of America started, but right before the election the two candidates gave their last speeches, on why the American population should pick them as their president. The writer of the first speech is Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is writing the speech to the American population and especially to her voters and the people who is rooting for her to be elected as the next president of the united states of America. The writer of the second speech is Donald J Trump. And like Hillary Trump speaks out to the American people and also his loyal voters who had followed him through the campaign.
On September 20, 2014 Emma Watson made an impressive speech about Feminism at the United Nation. Emma Watson was launching a campaign called “HeForShe”, by using this opportunity she want to use her ardent and motivational speech to convince the audience for equality. The main idea of Watson’s speech is to end gender inequality, by stating the misunderstand of feminism, the importance of men’s assistance, and the consequences of gender inequality. First of all, one the persuasive technique that Watson used in her speech is evidences. For example, Watson stated that “15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children” (Watson 3).