Julius Caesar Using the elements of rhetoric that you thoroughly analyzed throughout the course of the semester and complete a rhetorical analysis of one of the speeches listed on the following page. Be certain to site specific portions of the text to support your thoughts. You may find background information on the speeches and the text on The History Place website. http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm www.Americanrhetoric.com Rhetorical Analysis: You will select a speech from the list below and analyze the language for both what is said and how it is said. Your focus will be on your chosen speech. Was the speech effective? Why? How? What techniques were used? What was the speaker trying to accomplish? What Must Be Considered in a Rhetorical Analysis? 1. Analyze the rhetorical situation: identify the speaker of the passage as well as his or her exigence (urgent need), target audience, and purpose. 2. Analyze the rhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos. Be sure to cite particular details from the passage in order to illustrate these appeals. Do not fail to note the speaker’s use of inductive reasoning through paradigms (set of ideas used for understanding something) and / or deductive reasoning through enthymemes (an argument that assumes the truth of one or more premises and therefore omits them from the logical sequence). 3. Analyze the rhetorical devices: metaphor, simile, personification, synecdoche, metonymy, imagery, diction (including word clusters), syntax (including anastrophe (an alteration of the normal order of words or phrases in a grammatical construction, usually for rhetorical effect. Coleridge's "The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew" ends with an anastrophe)), parallelism, anaphora, selection of detail, repetition, pun, hyperbole, and so forth. In addition to identifying these rhetorical features, be sure to analyze how they function within the passage—that is, how they contribute to the effect upon the reader and / or the accomplishment of the speaker’s purposes. 4. Analyze how the passage reveals (or conceals) the character traits of its speaker. Also analyze how the passage contributes to Shakespeare’s development of key themes in the play, including ambition, loyalty, monarchy versus republicanism, fate versus free will, and so forth. What does the speech below reveal about its speaker? What is the speaker trying to accomplish? 5. Evaluate the effectiveness of the passage as a rhetorical specimen. Does its speaker accomplish his or her rhetorical purposes within the context of the play? Is the speaker’s success or failure predicated upon the rhetorical effectiveness of the passage or upon others factors beyond rhetorical prowess? Susan B. Anthony - On Women's Right to Vote (1873) Tony Blair - To the Irish Parliament (1998) Napoleon Bonaparte - Farewell to the Old Guard (1814) George Bush - Announcing War Against Iraq (1991) George W. Bush - Speech to Congress After September 11 (2001) Jimmy Carter - Tribute to Hubert Humphrey (1977) Neville Chamberlain - On the Nazi Invasion of Poland (1939) Winston Churchill - Blood, Sweat and Tears (1940) Winston Churchill - Their Finest Hour (1940) Winston Churchill - "Iron Curtain" (1946) Bill Clinton - "I Have Sinned" (1998) Bill Clinton - "I Am Profoundly Sorry" (1998) Edouard Daladier - Nazis' Aim is Slavery (1940) Frederick Douglass - The Hypocrisy of American Slavery (1852) Edward VIII - Abdicates the throne of England (1936) Elizabeth I of England - Against the Spanish Armada (1588) William Faulkner - On Accepting the Nobel Prize (1950) Gerald R. Ford - On Taking Office (1974) Gerald R. Ford - Pardoning Richard Nixon (1974) St. Francis of Assisi - Sermon to the Birds (1220) Cardinal Clemens von Galen - Against Nazi Euthanasia (1941) Giuseppe Garibaldi - Encourages His Soldiers (1860) William Lloyd Garrison - On the Death of John Brown (1859) Lou Gehrig - Farewell to Yankee Fans (1939) Richard Gephardt - "Life Imitates Farce" (1998) Al Gore - Concedes the 2000 Election (2000) Patrick Henry - Liberty or Death (1775) Harold Ickes - What is an American? (1941) Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream Lyndon B. Johnson - We Shall Overcome (1965) Lyndon B. Johnson - Decides Not to Seek Re-election (1968) Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce - On Surrender to US Army (1877) John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address (1961) John F. Kennedy - "We choose to go to the Moon" (1962) John F. Kennedy - Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) John F. Kennedy - "Ich bin ein Berliner" (1963) Robert F. Kennedy - On the Death of Martin Luther King (1968) Edward M. Kennedy - "The Cause Endures" (1980) Edward M. Kennedy - Tribute to John F. Kennedy Jr. (1999) Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address (1863) Nelson Mandela - "I am Prepared to Die" (1964) George C. Marshall - The Marshall Plan (1947) Vyacheslav Molotov - On the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union (1941) Richard M. Nixon - "Checkers" (1952) Richard M. Nixon - Resigning the Presidency (1974) Richard M. Nixon - White House Farewell (1974) Daniel O'Connell - Justice for Ireland (1836) William Lyon Phelps - The Pleasure of Books (1933) Pope John Paul II - At Israel's Holocaust Memorial (2000) Ronald Reagan - Address to British Parliament (1982) Ronald Reagan - On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day (1984) Ronald Reagan - On the Challenger Disaster (1986) Ronald Reagan - "Tear Down this Wall" (1987) Maximilien Robespierre - Festival of the Supreme Being (1794) Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address (1933) Franklin D. Roosevelt - Third Inaugural Address (1941) Franklin D. Roosevelt - For a Declaration of War (1941) Franklin D. Roosevelt - D-Day Prayer (1944) Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The Destructive Male (1868) George Graham Vest - Tribute to Dogs (c. 1855) George Washington - Prevents the Revolt of his Officers (1783) Elie Wiesel - The Perils of Indifference (1999) Woodrow Wilson - The Fourteen Points (1918)