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Rhetorical Analysis Of Margret Thatcher's Eulogy '

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In her eulogy, Margret Thatcher honors the former United States president Ronald Regan. In this, she uses many rhetorical strategies to convey her message. In the first few paragraphs, Thatcher uses many words to describe Ronald Regan positively. For example, she says, “In his lifetime, Ronald Regan was such a cheerful and invigorating presence that it was easy to forget what daunting historic tasks he set himself”. By doing this, she honors both his personality and the actions he took as president. Another strategy Thatcher uses in her eulogy is repetition. She uses this by stating the sentences with “Others” in the middle of the eulogy. The people she means by others are people who had doubts for an improvement in the west. After doing

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