Connotative Diction In Christopher Rowe's Speech

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In Christopher Reeve?s speech at the 1995 Democratic National Convention he used lots of words with connotative diction to appeal to the emotions of the audience in many ways to try to motivate them to help with the ADA and to donate to research to get help for the disabled people. First, there is an example of connotative diction where he talks about family. He states that all of America is one big family. I know when I hear family I think of happy things and that is what Reeve was trying to get at with using family. He was using that with the ADA because if your brother or sister or something like that has disabilities like in a wheelchair wouldn?t you want better rights for them. If America was one family then we would all try to make better

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