A bit of rhetoric

Obama: "Grant Park Speech"

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

Robert Kennedy: On the Mindless Menace of Violence

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.



John Winthrop: City upon a Hill

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

My fav' speech

Write a comment on the following questions:

1. Which speech was your favourite?

2. What made it better than the others?

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Tells It like it is - Part 1/2

Det retoriske pentagram

Here is a good model for analysing articles and speeches. All the elements of the pentagram are interconnected and it is possible to start anywhere in the model when you begin your analysis depending on the specific material you are working on.