Rhetorical Devices In Florence Kelley's Speech

In Patricks Henry's, "Speech to Virginia Convention," he persuades colonists that "Britain's insidious smile" blinds them from their dangerous attack. Henry further explains enslavery in Great Britain with considerable suffrage. By using metaphors, repetition, and pathos he tries to gain support from the declaration of war against Great Britain. Henry metaphorically calls the British response “a snare to your feet” also implying the image of a trap which will ensnare them.

During the time Florence Kelley was advocating for changes, child labor was a popular unrestricted practice. The kids were working making textiles and other items in horrible working conditions. Many states had children working more than 12 hours a day and night shifts while they were not allowed to go to school. Florence Kelley was a United States social worker and a reformer. She fought ferociously for improvements in child labor and conditions for working women. At this convention for the National American Woman Suffrage Association she wants to reach out the women focused on suffrage towards other issues. Kelley used rhetorical strategies to help convince her audience to help her fight against child labor. The use of repetition, imagery, and rhetorical question help get her point of eradicating child labor across to the audience.

In Elizabeth Cady Stantons speech she uses a lot of rhetorical devices to portray her views. Not only to portray her views but to also support her views and help make other if not already on the same viewing will convince them on her views. One of the biggest rhetorical devices she uses is Pathos. Not only the pathos has she used herself in the speech but the emotion she creates in the audience. Stanton believes that women shouldn’t have to change in order to get rights but that they should be included in the “every man is created equal�? sort of saying. She begins this speech in the Seneca Falls convention where she is speaking to anyone who wants to hear her views for anyone who already shares the same views. But it is also for those who

Slavery or freedom was the major decision, to fight or surrender! The colonists were losing hope of being recognized by England as people who mattered, the rebellious attitude and acts had been growing and now it has to come to the decision of continuing to take a step further and fight or surrender and accept defeat. Patrick Henry in his “Speech to the Virginia Convention” uses pathos in order to anger colonists and fire them up to come to action.

Women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her speech to women and men regarding women’s rights, emphasizes the fact that women are not on par with men and should strive to become equal. Stanton's purpose is to convince lawmakers, society, and women themselves to believe that all women are equal. She uses many rhetorical appeals throughout the text, including all three main rhetorical appeals: pathos, ethos, and logos. Stanton also uses diction and allusion to convey her point further.

Kelley accentuates white girls in hopes that her audience will imagine their own daughters in a similar situation and feel they are to blame. Throughout the first half of her speech, Kelley uses rhetorical devices to elicit the feelings of sympathy, remorse, and pity to persuade her audience. Using extensive details, she illustrates the harsh reality of what the children go through. She expresses that tonight while they sleep “several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons” for the audience to buy. She intentionally mentions items of necessity and luxury to relate to the poor and wealthier people she is speaking to. She uses rhetorical stances to emphasize her point by listing all the items the children make throughout the night that her audience members have most likely previously purchased. Going into detail that “the children make [their] shoes in the shoe factories; they knit [their] stockings, [their] knitted underwear” and continues by adding that they are “little beast of burden, robbed of the school life” so they can work instead. With these rhetorical stances, she evokes the feeling of guilt within her audience. By painting this picture, she reveals the grim truth that these children are forced to live by due to the

In 1992, a straight white woman born into a lot of money stood in front of the Republican National Convention and talked about AIDS. Her name was Mary Fisher, and she made her speech without disparaging Reagan in any way. Despite the fact that all of these things should be reasons for you not to care about her opinions on the subject of AIDS, I plan to use all sorts of facts and points and such to make the both of us pretend to care enough to get me a pretty decent grade. In both writing this paper and seeking not to fail English, I’ll be exploring Fisher’s usage of rhetorical devices to explain why you should think this is a good speech that holds up to the vicious ravages of time.

Suffrage is exposed through-out this entire article. Florence Kelly describes what these children went through during their childhood. Instead of laughing and playing they were sweating and earning money.

Kelley says “Now, therefore, in New Jersey, boys and girls, after their 14th birthday, enjoy the pitiful privilege of working all night long”(Kelley 43). The oxymoron that Kelley includes is “pitiful privilege” as it is brings attention to the child labor laws. As they are privileged because they now carry the stress and burden of staying up all night working. By Florence Kelley incorporating this oxymoron it displays the true unfairness about the current child labor persuading the the audience of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She also incorporates oxymorons by stating “Until the mothers in the great industrial states are enfranchised, we shall none of us be able to free our consciences from participation in this great evil” (Kelley 62).

• In Shirley Chisholm’s speech , she incorporates the rhetorical devices as persuasive devices to reveal her purpose. Her purpose is to show how not just black women are discriminated, but all women are discriminated. Shirley Chisholm is trying to persuade her point to House of Representatives for equal rights amendment. In this example, Shirley Chisholm uses the rhetorical device of ethos to reveal her purpose.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rhetoric was very effective in advancing her point of view. She iterates that women deserve the right to vote, and be treated as equals. She is asking the audience to join her in advocating women's rights, because it is simply the logical thing to do. Stanton is a woman, so she knows first hand what it is like to be an American woman in the 1800s. She uses this knowledge to choose how to further her argument.

During 1848-1920, the Women’s Suffrage Movement took place. Throughout this movement, women protested to win their rights. Florence Kelley, an American Social Worker and Reformer, fought for women’s suffrage and child labor law reformation. Along with the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Second Industrial Revolution was also taking place. As a result, there was high demand for workers. The target laborers were children. Kelley utilizes her speech to convey an important message to America - that it is inhumane to allow children under sixteen years of age to work under such harsh conditions. In order to resolve the issue, Kelley insists that child labor laws be reformed. This exploitation of children is addressed in Kelley’s speech.

Through her speech, Queen Elizabeth inspired her people to fight for the country of England against the Spaniards. Queen Elizabeth persuaded the English troops to defend their country with rhetoric devices such as diction, imagery, and sentence structure to raise their morale and gain loyalty as a woman in power.

The author uses pathos very frequently throughout the text to get her point across to the audience. In the text, Helen Keller mentions that, “For New York is great because of the open hand with which it responds to the needs of the weak and poor.” This quote demonstrates Keller's point that people in New York are a champion in helping so people of New York should want to give and help the needy, which carries an emotional appeal. In addition, Helen Keller says that, “The men and women for whom I speak are poor and weak in that they lack one of the chief weapons with which the human being fights his battle. But they must not on that account be sent to the rear. Much less must they be pensioned like disabled soldiers.” This also carries a very emotional point because she uses a metaphor

The powerful impact of President Kennedy's speech at Rice Stadium on the controversial decision to direct money of the United States towards building a preeminent space program lies in the eloquence and universality with which he weaves his appeal. Through analogies as well as acknowledging and addressing the concerns of those dubious towards the idea of space exploration, Kennedy crafts a persuasive argument, solidified by references to prior explorations and details of economic incentives.