Aragorn's Rhetorical Analysis

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From the beginning, Aragorn knows who the audience is and what they want to hear. His ethical goal is to persuade his followers to stand against the enemy. In order to win the trust of his audience, Aragorn shares his similar values and norms through calling his followers Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. He continues by being a little ethnocentric and arising the sense of patriotism through The Men of the West. Aragorn does not really display true evidence and facts that they will win the battle, but he uses his emotional side of speech to outrun they will not lose. His nonverbal communication makes the speech even stronger, to begin with his kinetic combined with artifacts such as the sword which is held very high and his body posture

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