Rhetorical Analysis Of Regan's Demonstration Speech

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This speech has a obvious structure. In the introduction, she introduces the letter from young mother, and using humora as an attention getter. In the body paragraph, she criticizes the Regan Administration, and she emphasizes that we can change the United State. In conclusion, she describes that her hope for future and importance of voting to democratic. She uses humor as an attention getter. She says that “I’m delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.” I consider that she researches the audience. Knowing the audience, she can use partisan humor to build a connection to the audience and score points against the political party. So, this attention getter is …show more content…

We are one nation, we are the United States of America!” In addition, she uses a same words and phrase to emphasize her main points. For example, she sais that “We believe that America is a country...We believe that our kids deserve good day care and public schools. We believe our kids deserve public schools…” To repeat the same words and phrase, she made solid main points, and we can recognize her main point very easily. Her main points is democratic has a power to change the United State. In order to clear her main point, she criticizes the Regan Administration and then-Vice President George H. W. Bush.. She uses there phrases; "Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." and “"When we pay billions for planes that won't fly, billions for tanks that won't fire, and billions for systems that won't work, that old dog won't hunt. And you don't have to be from Waco to know that when the Pentagon makes crooks rich and doesn't make America strong, that it's a bum deal” Thus, wan find her main point when she criticizes the Republican party. In the end, she repeat her main

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