Queen Elizabeth I's Speech

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This essay highlights the importance of queen Elizabeth I’s speech to the soldiers that were about to go to war, so this essay will analyze how she uses the resources of language such as diction, imagery and sentence structure. In the essay there was a metaphor and an example of that is, “I have the heart of a king, and of a king in England” and the meaning of that is that she is comparing her self to the power a king would have and that she is a strong women and capable of motivating the soldiers by saying that. And also another metaphor example is “and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my god and what is meant by this is that she is claiming to be weak but she isn’t. There was also first person narration