Rhetorical Analysis Of Obama's Famous Speech

The Rhetorical Analysis of Obama’s Famous Speech That is September 8 in 2009.Every student in America listened to a speech which is American president Obama gave all the students in America at the first day of school. Not only American pay extremely attention to the speech, but also even the people all over the world was influenced by this speech, especially the students. Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and 45th president in America. The first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. That is why he is an amazing lecturer. He also was a teacher in the past, so he can easily know the method of teacher

Furthermore, Obama used figurative language in the whole of the speech. Figurative language makes a speech become more vivid and attractive. “You 'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You 'll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation fairer and more free. You 'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.” Obama uses parallelism in this paragraph. He uses “You will” as the beginning of every sentence. In order to make the student know the importance of education, he uses parallelism to strengthen the tone. In addition, Obama uses three “Maybe” in “Maybe you don 't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there 's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood…”. The parallelism makes his speech become more attractive. Obama assumes that students maybe experience different situations to apply colors to a drawing a inspirational atmosphere. In order to encourage the student to believe that they can deal with any problems, he assumes different situations. Moreover, he mentions some persons in the part of speech. That is “Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn 't speak English when she first started school.”, “I 'm thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who 's fought brain cancer since he was three.” and “And then there 's Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois.” He uses analogy to prove that the student is like these young persons. He put all the students and he mentioned outstanding young people analogy. He means that these successful persons choose