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Clinton Effectively Uses 'Rhetorical Devices To Draw In Listeners'

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Kailyn Servus Mrs. Grillo 10H:1 April 14, 2023 Clinton Effectively Uses Rhetorical Devices To Draw in Listeners On September 5, 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. In this speech, Clinton argued more needs to be done to help women’s struggles in order to improve families and nations. To make her speech more influential, she used rhetorical elements and devices to impact her audience. Rhetorical elements such as ethos and pathos are used, to channel the audience’s emotions as well as build a trust between her and the listeners. Rhetorical devices, like repetition and paralellism, are used to further engage the audience. Clinton, with the assistance of rhetorical …show more content…

Ethos is used sporadically throughout Clinton’s “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” speech, to emphasize the numerous organizations that are continuously battling the fight for women’s injustices and to establish her own credibility in the matter. Earlier on September 5, the day her speech was given, Clinton took part in a World Health Organization forum in which government officials as well as individual citizens come together to address health concerns that pertain to both women and young girls. On September 6, she attended a gathering of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, which focuses on programs that provide credit to hardworking women so they can improve thei personal lives as well as the lives of their …show more content…

These devices played a crucial role in the audience’s involvement in this topic, both building trust with the orator and the audience as well as convincing them that their empathy is a driving force to better the world. To better the world, people must start with helping to better the women of the world. To helpbetter the women of the world would then lead to the betterment of families. The betterment of families would then lead to the betterment of communities, and later on the betterment of nations as a whole. The better nations become, the more unified the human population could be as a whole and numerous would problems would be put to rest. Although providing better services for women would only be a small step, it would evidently be a step towards the betterment of the

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