The Rhetorical Analysis Of Barack Obama's Political Speech

Without a good way of speaking to people, a speech-bearer will not get the message across in the desired fashion. America likes to be fed information and likes to hear and feel the passion in others rather than creating less public and unified little passions in themselves. Citizens like to hear their leaders interpretations and feel a sense of grouping from that, therefore most people will not have read the way Obama’s eulogy was written and analyzed it, but watched him read it and felt the rigor in his voice and therefore found a better sense of understanding. Things tend to make more sense to people when conveyed by someone they look to for guidance rather than when broken down themselves. So when President Obama at the end of his speech begins to sing, “Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me; I once was lost, but now I’m found; was blind but now I see.” It is not the paper in front of him belting out those lyrics, nor is it the way he wrote them on the paper that somehow makes them come out of his mouth in song, but it is his connection to the people that makes this melodious decision. Clearly, the writing of the speech helped the President organize his thoughts, but in the end, his delivery made all the difference to the citizens of the United States.

Every four years, American media and its people pay close attention to every speech within the U.S. presidential campaign. Last year, Hilary Clinton from Democratic and Donald Trump from Republican were two final candidates running for the U.S. presidency. The former First Lady, Michelle Obama showed her support for the Democratic presidential candidate by giving an emotional speech on Clinton’s campaign rally. This speech occurred in New Hampshire. In this paper, I’ll provide some information of the speech, discuss the main issues she addressed, and analyze the profound message of her speech.

These devices create a speech that is clear to the audience, relatable to a wide variety of people, and develop strong pathos. It is because of his successful and abundant use of rhetoric that Obama’s speech turned him from an Illinois Senator into a rising star with a presidential

The use of sentenia, repetition and distinctio each add different meanings to President Obama’s inaugural speech. The employment of a sentenia adds connections to the past. Repetition is mainly practiced to emphasize many of Obama’s goals. And distinctio benefits the audience because it adds clarification to an example. All in all, Obama successfully used rhetorical devices to deepen the meaning of his Inaugural

At the inauguration speech, president Clinton used simple and correct words. In addition, his words were concise and easy to understand. He created cadences by using of a key word or phrase more than once gives it rhythm, power, and make it memorable. He used the word such as government, world and American in many parts of his speech. For example, “Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution”. In addition, he used metaphor in his speech by making contrast between spring and winter at the beginning of the speech. One listen barrier that affected me was prejudice, because I already have a preconceived opinion on what he will about to say. Usually, most United states presidents talk about economic,

Obama uses a lot of ethos in his speech. It’s the appeal form he uses the most. Actually it’s the appeal form he uses the most. He does that to strengthen his own person. He tries to tell the students that he knows how some of them are feeling. He does that with a lot

September 11, 2001 is a day that will be remembered in American history forever. This day was one of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil. More than 3,000 innocent people lost their lives that day. George W Bush had been president of the Untied States for less than a year at the time of the attacks. He was faced with the difficult task that evenings of letting the world know what took place that day, and help the American people through a day of shock and disbelief. In a time of unspeakable evil, George W bush addresses that nation using rhetorical appeals; together with the history of American ideas to reassure and untie not only Americans, but the world to stand together and fight back on the war of terrorism.

Furthermore, President Obama’s first inaugural speech contained patriotism, allusions, and anaphoras to appeal to the effect of pathos. His diction helps to persuade his audience that he is understanding and emotionally connected to the situation that America has been in and the importance of sticking to the ideas that our founding fathers have implemented thus far in America’s

¨Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race. ¨ Boston was devastated when the bombing occurred during the Boston Marathon. Obama´s speech conveys the message that Boston is strong, brave, determined and not to let terrorism destroy our city and people. In the speech the message portrayed to the country is not to be afraid and how as a country we can pull together after a heartbreaking occurrence is conveyed through a variety of literary strategies. Literary devices are used in everything we read and the speech given after the Boston marathon bombing by the President of the United States concentrates on colloquial and dialogue.

The 44th and first African American President, Barack Obama, in his Inaugural Address, promotes a call to action. Obama’s purpose is to express his gratitude for his opportunity to become president and discuss his plans for economic advancement. In order to reach the American people of the U.S., Obama adopts a serious and thought-provoking tone to urge them to support his plans for advancement. During this time of economic crisis, Obama clearly conveys to the American people through his use of metaphor, allusion, and anaphora, that it is time to take a stand and make a change in America.

Roosevelt used antithesis during his speech even though it was metaphorically weak. A typical example was in paragraph five (5). When he compared the risen of taxes and their inability to pay have fallen.

The way to a convincive speech is with the delivery, and also the context. President Barack Obama gave an inauguration speech for his second term in office in 2013. He reflected on the ambitions and perceptions the American people, along with himself, needed to take in the following years. Along with that, also touched up on his plans for the American development he planned to create using pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos is dominantly used in Obama’s Inaugural Address, the uses of Ethos and Logos are still present within his words, but are weakly brought up.

Obama spoke about climate change in the Everglades located in Homestead, FL. of April 22, 2015. Obama had a good introduction because he explained where he was and the holiday, which all related to the topic his speech was going to focus on. Obama clearly stated that part of the reason he was there was to address climate change because it was threatening the Everglades, which he referred to as a treasure. In the beginning Obama engaged all his audience by acknowledging his audience watching him though the news with hand gestures and by inviting everyone who has not visited the Everglades that they should because he recommends it. I would argue that this made the audience such as myself feel a personal connection with him and the Everglades.

The overall message of Barack Obama 's White House Correspondents ' Dinner speech is a reflection of Obama 's past achievements and a positive outlook for the rest of his presidency. His whole point was that he is still positive and working toward accomplishing his goals within the past two terms of his presidency.

The talk of perfecting the ‘new age’ has yet to reach its success. As the world adjusts and advance in new every-once-and-awhile problems, people find new situations that cause disastrous events. However, in the novel, “The Giver”, there is a society classified as a dystopian where many scenarios are similar to a ‘trapped society’.Between Modern day and The Giver, both are societies based upon different standards that keep the people in certain places to prevent chaos. Is a dystopian world really different from reality?