ballots would be cast for the 43 President of the United States of America. He expressed to the nation that his experience was incomparable and like no other. Obama is known to use three main manipulative devices in his speeches. His effective use of Anaphora‚ Anecdotes‚ mixed in with his own personal style. The effective use of these devices captivated his audience and could possibly make him one of the best public speakers in political history. Barack is best known for his use of anecdotes‚ he always
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citizens are in need of hope‚ and need to believe this young president is the right man to lead their future. His inaugural speech gave Americans comfort‚ and hope that they needed at the time. Throughout his speech Kennedy uses emotion-arousing words‚ anaphora‚ antithesis‚ and rhetorical questions to encourage Americans to show their patriotism. In the beginning of Kennedy’s speech he uses antithesis. Kennedy starts off with an antithesis in order to leer his audience in. Kennedy constantly uses this
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‘United there is little we cannot do… Divided‚ there is little we can do’ which uses the device of chiasmus to promote the argument that as a country‚ and to the allies of the USA‚ there must be a sense of unanimity. The address goes on to use further anaphora‚ but this time with the paragraphs beginning with the command ‘let’. One example of the use of this in the speech is ‘Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars‚ conquer the deserts
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Edgar Allen Poe was a nineteenth century American poet and short story author. The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe are both stories concerning madness and hysteria. Both tales are written in a gothic horror genre with the intention of chilling and unsettling the reader. This was to make them anticipate what was going to happen next in the story. Poe succeeds in creating tension by the content of the tales‚ partly being supernatural and suspenseful. He creates this tension by
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endured some of the most powerful challenges mankind has ever witnessed‚ he Negro spirit has grown through time with its people. In Langston Hughes’s poem‚ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers‚” the speaker uses devices such as anaphora and allusion to convey pride in the Negro spirit. The anaphora present in the poem is seen in phrases such as‚ “I bathed‚” (4) “I built‚” (5) “I looked‚” (6) and “I heard” (7). Each of these phrases has a declarative feeling‚ in which the speaker is strongly affirming that he
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of the speech‚ it was primarily King’s masterly use of different rhetorical instruments that encouraged Kennedy and his team to take further steps towards racial equality. King effectively utilizes numerous linguistic devices‚ such as metaphors‚ anaphoras‚ allusions‚ and provides an abundance of specific examples in his address and this all makes the speech more convincing and memorable. But before we look at these rhetorical devices employed in the speech in more detail‚ a brief summary of the
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Anecdote - whimsical - setting the scene (1) Using descriptive language to pull the reader into the painting (2) "quality of the draughtsmanship‚ the brush strokes in thin oils‚ had a Renaissance beauty‚ but the fearful and compelling thing about the picture was its modernity" Rhetorical Question (3) Describing her "safety zone"‚ using books as a symbol (4) Discrediting herself (4) - ethos Rhetorical Question (5) Build up her credibility: ethos (6) Symbol of foreign city as artwork. Personifying
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the author‚ William Blake‚ is describing one of the most powerful and beautiful creatures and praising God’s work in the process by using symbols and different figures of speech. The figures of speech that are used are alliteration‚ metaphor‚ and anaphora. By using these certain figures of speech‚ Blake brings the focus to those things that he is so in awe of. Now‚ Just to give a quick background to the author‚ we go to Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire and the Bio
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contradicting the ideas of the Transcendentalists. “The Raven‚” a creepy and heart pumping poem by Poe‚ uses the literary devices anaphora and alliteration to emphasize insanity. The poem follows the recount of the narrator‚ who‚ while trying to grieve the death of a lady named Lenore‚ encounters a raven which haunts his spirits and drives him to insanity. Poe uses anaphora in “The Raven” by ending all 18 stanzas with “nevermore‚” “nothing more‚” or “evermore.” By following this theme‚ Poe successfully
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themselves from the “...chains of poverty…” For multiple paragraphs‚ Kennedy repeatedly uses the phrase “let both sides.” In this use of an anaphora‚ Kennedy illustrates how much power a large group can have when they join hands and work together. Again‚ for multiple paragraphs‚ Kennedy repeatedly begins his paragraphs with the word “to.” In the use of another anaphora‚ this consistent pattern puts additional emphasis on coming together. If everyone comes together and offers their support‚ greatness can
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