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Rhetorical Analysis Pearl Harbor Speech

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Former president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, in his speech, Pearl Harbor Speech December 8 1941, using strong diction and repetition he shows the importance and magnitude of the situation. He adopts a very serious and urgent tone that he portrays through his speech . Roosevelt opens his speech by informing the people of the United States of the deliberate attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. He includes strong diction very early to grab the audience’s attention emotionally. Using words like “deliberately” he puts into the people’s minds that the attack on Pearl Harbor was no accident, causing citizens to dislike the Japanese. He then appeals furthermore to the audience’s emotions by indirectly calling the Japanese traitors,
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