Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Anaphora
Ah, anaphora, that old standby of politicians and speechwriters everywhere. Boy, do they love starting sentences with the same words over and over again.Why do they do it? Because it's effective. B...
Dysphemism
Remember Bob Ross, with his happy trees and happy accidents? With just a little bit of paint and what looked like the greatest of ease, Bob Ross could turn an empty canvas into the most majestic la...
Brevity
Brevity may be the soul of wit…but it's also the soul of this speech.Not only is the speech itself brief—just twenty-six sentences in total—but the sentences within it are rather brief as wel...