Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film Glory (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). There were a few massive achievements that were accomplished by him by the age of 62. 1.0 Summary Fall Forward speech has been delivered by Danzel Washington in University of Pennsylvania as a commencement speech. He dedicated the speech to the graduates’ students to motivate all of them to never give up in trying accomplishing something in their life. In the speech, he told about 1000 times of failure in experiments …show more content…
Danzel begin the speech by admitting that he was nervous to face the crowd during the event even though he was always used to play different roles in movies or theatre. He then relates it with his willingness to take the risk because he mentioned that “I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks”. Danzel state the claim and he was able to prove it and he already got the audiences’ belief in the beginning of the …show more content…
There are numerous persuasive devices that can be used as tricks in order to appear credible in the eyes of the audiences. There will be eight persuasive devices that will be mentioned in this analysis which are artistic proof which consist of ethos, logos and pathos, facts, repetition, positive dictions, analogy and rhetorical questions. 3.1 Artistic proof According to Aristotle, persuaders use proof to persuade audiences. Aristotle describes artistic proof as proof that is created, or invented by the persuaders. There are three types of artistic proof: ethos, or character; pathos, or emotion; and logos, or logic. All of the three types of artistic proof are used in this