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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Barack Obama's Inaugural Speech

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In the Barack Obama speech (44th President of U.S.), (Obama’s Inaugural Address), he tells how America is today. Obama’s purpose was to tell America that he is here to make a change to the way society is. His audiences is America and use a motivational tone to illustrate the change he wants to visualize. In the speech, Obama could make a change.

In the first paragraph, Barack Obama shifts to using metaphors explaining why he’s here and why he doing his speech. The reason why this paragraph deals with because he says, “ grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.” This quote means that he was showing gratitude and trust this nation.

In the Fifth paragraph, Obama starts to contrasts America and
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