Publicistic Style

To begin, one rhetorical device Eleanor Roosevelt uses in her speech is the anaphora. For example, she states,“But we know that we have to work together and we have to progress” In this passage Eleanor repeats the phrase, “we have to” in order to emphasize the fact that not only should one

Jonathan Edwards and Patrick Henry, use rhetorical devices/techniques to influence society, so that the point that they’re trying to get through comes directly towards them while using using the formats. Each rhetorical device was used while they preached towards the audience and congregation, but the most important one was pathos. Pathos is the direct focus being that they know that’s the easiest device(technique) to influence the audience on what’s being announced towards them.

     The rhetorical style uses persuasive ideals in the use of language. For example, in the first sentence of the second paragraph, the parallel structure and

Possibly the three most important components a writer must understand are audience, genre, and rhetorical situation. When reading critically we become acquainted with these concepts therefore become better writers ourselves. While learning about rhetorical writing and composition we have analyzed Billy Collins “ Commencement Address at Choate- Rosemary Hall” , Martin Luther King Jr’s “letter from Birmingham Jail” and Lloyd Bitzer’s essay on “Rhetorical Situation”. In this paper I will analyze and make connections between the concepts of audience, genre and rhetorical situation in connection to the fore-mentioned readings. In doing so I will focus on how each used these concepts as means to communicate their main ideas and purpose.

In his essay, Orwell uses all three rhetoric appeals in this essay: pathos, ethos, and logos. He uses pathos because some of his arguments are generally opinion-based. The “rules” of written language are very fluid; even common grammatical rules are still debated by linguistics. Orwell does not have the authority to set the supreme rules for all written English. Throughout the essay, Orwell tries to convey his points to the reader through logical thought. With logos, he argues that writing should people simpler so that more people understand it. Orwell uses ethos in an unconventional way. He does the opposite of how ethos is usually used, by correcting and criticizing other credible authors like Professor Harold Laski, Professor Lancelot Hogbean, and even the Communist pamphlet. However, by editing these writers, he is building up his own credibility.

One can hear a sermon any day of the week, because there are many preachers out there in the world. Many sermons are retold Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments that tell how our ancestors lived, and teach us life applications of how to glorify God while we are living our lives. For over a thousand years God’s word has been preached by many faithful men who follow Him. However, there were some of those faithful men who used God’s Word and their own improvisation to convict sinners and to put their trust in God. Those times resulted in an era called the Great Awakening of the 18th century and they also put an end to the segregation era of the 20th century. Two of the faithful men during those eras were

President Ronald Reagan changed the way society viewed public speaking and politics and continues to make his impact on the world today as his rhetoric serves at the outlines of numerous governmental leaders such as President Trump (Costa). While his speeches occurred over thirty years ago over television and radio, Reagan is still remembered as being a monumental orator in history as his speeches are still highly critiqued in both academic settings and public history (Hayward)(Peters and Woolley). Throughout my paper, I will analyze the rhetorical devices Reagan used that were meant to unite, in order to help readers understand the rhetorical devices used in political rhetoric, which consequently both united and excluded certain people. Understanding past rhetoric of an orator such as Reagan will lead to a better understanding of the rhetorical devices used by political figures and the impacts they

To find a piece that is currently looked upon as a paragon of rhetorical strategies, scholars would look towards President Abraham Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural Address”. This speech was given at the start of his second presidential inauguration with the purpose of establishing his point of view on the war and its effects. To elaborate his thoughts and hopes for the future of the United States of America, Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural Address” is riddled with rhetorical strategies such as installation of self-credibility, deliberately designated diction, and carefully supplemented repetition to succeed in his desire to sway the audience towards his views.

However, with the New-Rhetoric that was not always the case. George Pullman stated that the new rhetoric has shifted toward “the study of language beyond persuasion” (Thomas 17). Thus, the shift has manifested anew domain of treating rhetoric and its different parts a well. Moreover, when looking at “invention” parts and treatments in the new rhetoric, then it also holds some of the old classical treatment to it but with a different focus. The process or approach that the new rhetoric has for invention is built on three approaches which are; the classical treatment of invention, the Burk “pentad” method and the “tagmemic heuristic” method (Young, Becker and Pike). So, in the first approach, the classical approach to invention, the argument goes through the five elements which are: invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery. Thus, the writer will begin by understanding and accumulating knowledge for his argument through understanding the topic or issue that he or she is

In the article there were many rhetorical strategies. The ones that I feel stood out the most are atmosphere, imagery, and exemplification.

President John F. Kennedy was shot in November 22, 1963 which lead to his legacy being different and different to many people. People wondered what truly could’ve happened if he was there for all his four years of presidency and many doubted John F. Kennedy if he was frankly ready to proceed with his leadership. Now seeing his speeches, one can tell what styles he used to persuade the audience to make him where he was that day.(elected President) Using John F, Kennedy’s Inauguration day, shows us how the formats he used were appealing to others when it came to him delivering his speech in front of the audience. By using similarities and differences in each document, they have their own ways of styles in pathos, ethos, and descriptive writing/Visual Images.

Inauguration speeches are an opportunity newly elected or re-elected president to offer the table an idealistic dream of the future, and achieve the organizations in the nation together then afterward the thing that was, more frequently over not, a bitterly fought election. These speeches are always recalled all through history and fill in as the first official speech discourse from the recently chose president. A discourse is an intense device. It can educate, illustrate, induce, or fill in as enjoyment. Any discourse made spots significant attention on the dialect used to achieve its objectives, yet political addresses,

In these day, we mostly easy to get a message from commercial, tv show and a movie. but back then around 1950's people are hard to get a message . so today I will write about how some author like Arthur Miller and Jonathan Edward share their message through rhetorical appeals to the 1950's audience and how they convey to it.

Giving a successful speech, in any language, is a difficult yet gratifying skill. Great speeches can be inspiring, compelling, and even revolutionary – indeed, these speeches are deliberate, succinct, engaging, and unforgettable. Two examples of such great speeches in both literature and in history are Mark Antony’s eulogy in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Robert F. Kennedy’s On the Death of Martin Luther King. Through the speakers’ use of parallel structure, caesuras, and personal references – three stylistic devices and techniques – not only were both speakers able to embellish their speeches; it also allowed each speaker to deliver an even more powerful speech. In these speeches, the use of repetition through the anaphoral and

Genre is known to change discourse by the format the information is presented to the audience (Varela, 2008). It is also a category of composition that is characterized by a particular style, form or content as dictate by Webster Third Dictionary. However Trosborg (n.d) stated that for the past decade, genre identification, classification and description have been scholarly concern. Certain scholars dictate that genre is defined primarily around its basic external criteria such as journals and newspaper discourse while other scholars stand on the opinion that genre can be classify by its communicative purpose, linguistic content and form of role its play in the discourse made (Trosborg, n.d).