Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech To The Troops At Tilbury

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In her speech given to the troops at Tilbury, Queen Elizabeth I empowers and motivates the english troops, who plan to face the grandest army in the world at the time, the Spanish Armada. Through utilizing multiple rhetorical strategies, she enables the troops to feel confident and patriotic through her words, galvanizing them to fight harder and stronger for England. In addition to creating a very motivating tone, Queen Elizabeth employs the use of empowering diction, anaphoras, and imagery to inspire maximum confidence within the valiant troops that plan to fight the strong and powerful Spanish Armada later that day. First, to motivate and inspire the audience, Queen Elizabeth utilizes empowering diction to create an atmosphere of utmost confidence in her soldiers. Queen Elizabeth most notably uses empowering diction when she states, “but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.” This statement is not only intensely empowering, as it invokes nationalism, it also evokes a tremendous sense of ethos, as she hyperbolizes England, and makes the claim that as ruler of the greatest kingdom, she …show more content…

Through inserting phrases such as “in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust” she creates a synthetic atmosphere of the battle in the troops minds and tells them that she will stand through the battle with them. Doing so emphasizes her confidence in the troops and helps empower them. In providing evocative images of battle she prepares her soldiers for what lies ahead, and indicates that she will stand and fight amongst them in spirit. This perpetuates that she wants them to go into battle feeling confident in the fact that the Queen of England is right at their side, fully confident in their

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