Rhetoric Analysis: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

oosevelt uses many rhetorical devices to make the audience trust him. He uses Ethos to

make them feel like they are equal even though he has a substantial amount of power over them.

He uses Pathos to tell about emotions that could be present in the state that the nation was in the

Great Depression. The President uses logos to tell the hard truth to the American people and he

tells them the truth.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt uses ethos, pathos, and logos to strengthen his message of

hope for America. Rhetorical devices can be very cool and intelligible if you look at how they plan

these things out. Franklin Delano Roosevelt uses many different rhetorical devices and other

persuasive skills to gain the trust of the American people.

FDR uses many rhetorical devices and examples of

these are very present in the speech. Another example of this is when he compares the Great

Depression to the Locust plague of the Bible. ”We are stricken by no plague of Locusts.” Franklin

is saying that the situation they are going through is not as bad as it looks but It is pretty bad, so

he uses the Biblical plague of Locusts to say, “Hey, it could be a lot worse.” As you can see FDR

uses many rhetorical devices in his first inaugural speech to establish trust. Ethos is a rhetorical

device used to appeal to the reader or listeners ethics, hence the E.T in ethos.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt uses Pathos as well in his speech and he uses it in a way that makes

the audience feel for him. "...- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed

efforts to convert retreat into advance." Roosevelt uses loaded language to emphasize what fear,

which is useless, does to us and how it affects our plans. FDR presents us with many rhetorical

devices in this speech and we have to look at this speech from the view of a citizen in the early

1930’s that is broken and lost everything and is starving. ”So, first of all, let me assert my