Rhetorical Devices In Hillary Clinton's Speech

This proves that the American Dream was not achievable for woman because not only did men opposed of their right to vote, but so did some woman who held them back women like Jordan Baker opposed the right to vote because they were wealthy so voting did not affect them, they would be fine no matter what. The audience of this is other women and it is trying to make them believe that if they were able to vote they would just be making it harder on the men because they have no experience. Jordan Baker is like Seawell because they both do not see the bigger picture about how everyone has to look out for each other instead of just for themselves. As well as women holding themselves back the American Dream was unachievable because they were always having kids.

One thing she does to provoke action is using rhetorical questions. She asks “If the mothers and the teachers in Georgia could vote, would the Georgia Legislature have refused at every session for the last three years to stop the work in the mills of children? Would the New Jersey legislature have passed that shameful repeal bill enabling girl of fourteen years to work at night, if the mothers in New Jersey were enfranchised?” Kelley knows that the women in NAWSA will vote to end child labor if they have a right to vote. This is why she asks this rhetorical question. She wants to let them know that if the women there are allowed to vote that they will fix some of society’s injustices. Kelly additionally uses diction to make the listeners feel even worse about child labor. She says “They carry bundles of garments from the factories to the tenements, little beasts of burden, robbed of school life so that they may work for us.” A “beast of burden” is an animal that does work, like a camel or a donkey. She calls the children “little beasts of burden” because they are doing very hard work for any person but especially someone of that age. Their amount of time that they have to take a break isn’t in their own hands but of that of their master. This diction reveals how in child labor, there is a degradation of human life. Kelley ends her speech using syntax to leave the audience rushing to help fix child labor. She declares “For the sake of the children for the Republic in which these children will vote after we are dead, and for the sake of our cause, we should enlist the workingmen voters with us, in this task of freeing the children from toil!” Kelley uses an exclamatory statement which is a powerful statement for the audience to be left with. It empowers the women to make a change to help fix child labor. The end of Kelley’s speech clearly

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When attempting to present a certain perspective to an audience, the speaker must not merely string a list of monotonous and meaningless words together and call it a speech. Rhetoric, also known as persuasive elocution, has the power to captivate an audience and is essential to any effective oration. In his 2008 Republican Convention speech, actor Fred Thompson lends his support to John McCain’s presidential campaign in order to convince American voters to do the same. Appealing to his audience’s patriotism and sense of responsibility while also discrediting the possibility of a successful Democratic nominee, Thompson delivers a memorable presentation laced with passion, light-hearted humor, and, most especially, hope for a better future lead

He also uses the literary device of parallelism, which means that he uses similar wording in his syntax to make a point, “I have used the words "they" and "their" in speaking of these heroes. I could say "you" and "your" because I am addressing the heroes of whom I speak.” In addition, he asks a rhetorical question, a question not meant to be answered aloud but to be pondered silently, “You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?” Asking this rhetorical question gets the audience involved in his speech. These are both useful techniques because they both relate him to the audience and keep the audience’s attention by inquiry. These are all strategies that lead to the same outcome, to persuade the audience that he is best fit to be the leader of this nation.

Kelley starts off her speech with a bang by constantly repeating herself, which allows the audience to understand how important the points she is trying to get across truly are. For example, on lines 10-12 she states, “Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boy increase…” By using such dramatic repetition, Kelley causes the audience to feel sadness towards the children, since they are being treated like adults at such a young age. Kelley continues her strong usage of repetition throughout the entire story by constantly stating the words “little white girls” should not be doing the type of jobs that adults do. By using more little white girl statements rather than little white boy statements in her speech, Kelley is able to show the problem in child labor, but more importantly the change that is needed for women’s rights. Finally, on lines 92-96 she goes onto say, “For the sake of the children, for the Republic in which these children…

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In a world of politics, many politicians are involved in negative campaigns and as a result healthy conversation among politicians often lead to a disaster. With the endless political news cycles, rhetoric is essential for politicians to deliver their speeches. Therefore, in this essay, the style and delivery of Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention will be examined. It will be using the three main appeals of Aristotle’s mode of persuasion, the five essential rhetoric elements and the classical canons to analysed the speech and evaluate its effectiveness all of which will contribute to its persuasive power to leave a memorable impression in the minds of the audience.