Note that I'm not asking for your political opinion. Your role should be to stay objective and not take sides at all. So, you may be a staunch Republican, you may be a passionate Democrat, or you may be a firm Independent, but you are not offering your political opinion. All you are doing is analyzing how the speaker crafted the argument of the message. For starters, pay attention to the SOAPSTONE: subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone. Think about diction. Think about any literary language such as metaphors, analogies, symbolism, allusions, or hyperbole. Does the speaker use parallel structure, repetition, or anaphora? To what extent, if at all, does the speaker make appeals to emotion (pathos) and/or logic (logos)? Why? How does the speaker establish his or her credibility (ethos)?
Even though I know you could, I'm not asking you to write a huge essay or anything. In the interest of brevity, I'm asking you to keep your analysis to one single paragraph with a minimum of 250 words.
- Click here to see a list of speeches from the Republican National Convention ~ Notable speeches from Donald J. Trump, Ivanka Trump, Laura Ingraham, and Rudy Guiliani
- Click here to see a list of speeches from the Democratic National Convention ~ Notable speeches from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Khizr Khan, Michelle Obama, and President Obama.