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Rhetorical Analysis Essay On Kevin Rudd's 'Sorry'

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Kevin Rudd's "Sorry" Speech from 2008 is a well-known speech that calls on humanity to view the world with a contemporary perspective. Kevin Rudd apologises to the indigenous people on behalf of Australia for the injustice, pain, and suffering that the first Australian settlers inflicted on them. Rudd addresses a primarily indigenous audience in this speech, using a variety of persuasive strategies, and rhetorical devices like pathos in order to convey Australia's regret, over the injustice and treatment meted out to the indigenous culture.

One way the speaker persuades is through the technique of Anaphora. Anaphora is used multiple times throughout this speech to elicit the audience's emotional imagination and to highlight the tragedy and
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