Wallace's examples make the audience think about how the situations can sometimes be challenging. During the speech he states down to earth comments making the audience connect more to
Response #5 to Night // Eilidh Simpson In Elie Wiesel’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Piece Prize in the book Night, Elie accepts it on behalf of all of the survivors and even all of the Jews from the Holocaust. He thanks the chairman for separating people and the previous and present generations. Above anything he thanks them for helping humans make peace.
Although McCullough weakens his speech with the time spent on unrelated stories, he does a good job making his point through the use of repetition, imagery, and logos.
His speech can be broken down into smaller parts that first emphasized the hard facts, then secondly,
By showing your credibility, and some emotional appeal makes the audience very more open to receiving meaningful and powerful quotes. It simply would not have the same affect on his audience if he did not do
In 1968, times are tough and people like Martin Luther King Jr. are fighting for civil rights for African-Americans. On April 4, King is brutally shot and killed. The civil rights leader whose strategy was nonviolence, fell victim to a violent attack. Robert F. Kennedy delivers a speech later that day with the purpose of honoring Martin Luther King Jr., consoling americans, and letting them know that we can get through this. The key to any effective speech is a thoughtful mix of ethos, logos, and pathos based on the designated audience.
The Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech written by Elie Wiesel was delivered in 1986 at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Wiesel writes the speech using his experiences of the Holocaust and his personal thoughts mainly to persuade people to do the right thing. The speech was written to show the suffering that people went through during the Holocaust so that no event like the Holocaust would happen again in the future; that no person would ever have to go through the suffering and torture the Jews went through. Wiesel develops the idea that when people face suffering or humiliation they should not remain silent through the use of pathos, allusion, and parallelism.
In his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Elie Wiesel strives to inform his audience of the unbelievable atrocities of the Holocaust in order to prevent them from ever again responding to inhumanity and injustice with silence and neutrality. The structure or organization of Wiesel’s speech, his skillful use of the rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos, combined with powerful rhetorical devices leads his audience to understand that they must never choose silence when they witness injustice. To do so supports the oppressors. Wiesel’s speech is tightly organized and moves the ideas forward effectively. Wiesel begins with humility, stating that he does not have the right to speak for the dead, introducing the framework of his words.
He connects with the audience by establishing an agreement. He expresses gratitude by acknowledging that he has “privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall” (70). His humble introduction sets a peaceful tone for his speech. This offsets the potential for a defensive attitude within the audience. In appearing agreeable and humble, the audience relaxes.
On June 4, 2003, world-wide known comedian, Will Ferrell delivered a very influential and amusing speech to the Harvard graduating Class of 2003. Ferrell expressed this graduating speech with something new and unique. He doesn’t present his speech like any other class day speaker; he is very inspirational and wants the students to see how different their life is going to be once they leave this graduation ceremony. Ferrell compellingly employs a very lighthearted tone, which includes humor, and pathos to effectively gain the audience’s attention and successfully tell students about the “real world”. Ferrell’s usage of a lighthearted tone throughout his speech creates a connection between him and his audience which lasts from start to finish.
Every year, the Teen Choice Awards show gives out an Ultimate Choice Award. In 2013, the award was given to Ashton Kutcher. For those who do not know anything about Ashton Kutcher, it may seem as if his life is set. However, Kutcher 's life was actually far from perfect. Despite the odds however, he managed to pull through and became the man he is today.
McCullough was keeping the audience attention by making a joke by tying it back into the graduation speech. He made sure he wasn't saying meaningless jokes just to make the crowd laugh. McCullough used some persuasive strategies within his speech. For example he used a lot of pathos. He was using a lot of emotional appeal within his speech to get the audience more involved.
On December 10, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his acceptance speech upon being presented The Nobel Peace Prize. King discusses what many will not; he is gutsy in stating that this festivity does not pertain to him or his brothers. Also, he states how The Nobel Prize is not representing its compelling essence of peace and brotherhood. His main message within his speech is that there are three issues that need to be addressed racial injustice, poverty, and war. His purpose is to demonstrate the hope within him that one-day peace and brotherhood can become a reality.
Rhetorical Analysis of Obama’s Victory Speech Barack Obama was re-elected as the president of the US on November 6, 2012 from Chicago, Illinois. This paper will throw light and analyse various elements Barrack Obama is using to portray his political ideology to audiences through his speech. I intend to focus on the rhetorical effects of the speech. By using various form of rhetorical tools such as Tautology or Anaphora, President Obama gives a speech which focuses on the idea of American life such as the American dream, American promise and the future.
In the speech “Steve Jobs Commencement Address to Stanford University, Class of 2005” , Apple CEO Steve Jobs provides his audience with personal experiences and the rough periods he went through in his early years before founding apple that helped him succeed. With the use of his stories Jobs creates a character that prevails through obstacles and manages to achieve his goals, which inspires his audience to look up to him and show that failure is sometimes necessary to succeed. At the beginning of his speech, Steve Jobs begins describing his life with a series of stories that helped him reach his success, this helps Jobs create ethos because his audience will understand the hardships he went through to be where he is today, instead of just thinking of Jobs as the founder of Apple and not really knowing about the struggles he had to go through.
