Rhetorical device used: Appositive When a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it, this is called appositive. Readability score: Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 57.9 Years later, confronted in his second term by the Watergate scandal, Nixon announced he would resign the Presidency rather than, ".continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress." Nixon has another famous speech - "Checkers" in which he confronted criticism for the gift of a small Cocker spaniel from a constituent. This speech is notable as the 1st resignation speech by an American President. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. "The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. Johnson is describing how America could become The Great Society. Rhetorical device used: Epithet describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are. Readability score: Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease64.8 The focus of his 1964 campaign was the War on Poverty which he refers to in this speech.Ī Lesson plan on the NYTimes Learning Network contrasts this speech with a news report of the War on Poverty 50 years later. Kennedy, President Johnson passed two important acts of legislation: The Civil Rights Act and the omnibus Economic Opportunity Act of '64. Of 10 "The Great Society" -Lyndon Baines JohnsonĪfter the assasination of President John F. "In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, "He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it." Reagan compares the astronauts in this manner: Reagan referred to the explorer Sir Francis Drake who died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. Rhetorical device used: Historical reference or Allusion A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art to enrich the reading experience by adding meaning. Readability score: Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease77.7 “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and s lipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.” There were multiple references to history and literature including a line from a World War II era sonnet: "High Flight", by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. When the space shuttle "Challenger" exploded, President Ronald Reagan canceled the State of the Union Address to deliver eulogy to the astronauts who had lost their lives. Ronald Regan on the "Challenger" Disaster. "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." This famous opening line sets the tone of the speech: Rhetorical device used: Diction: refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary ( word choices) and style of expression in a poem or story. Readability score: Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease48.4 While members of FDR's Cabinet were "in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific", the Japanese fleet bombed the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. If word choice is an important tool in persuasion, than FDR's word choices to declare war on the Empie of Japan are notable: severe damage, premeditated invasion, onslaught, unprovoked, and dastardly Of 10 "Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation"- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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