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1、AnalysisofObama'sspeechRhetoricalsetting:EpideicticOratoryEthos:SincetheoratoristheAmericanpresidentofprestigeandknowshowtobeatrustworthyindividualbyexhibitingintellengence,goodsense,virtue,andgoodwill,thespeechappearstobemorepowerfulandconvincingthana
2、commonpeople'saddress.paragraphoneWe'reheretomemorialize29Americans:CarlAcord.JasonAtkins.ChristopherBell.GregoryStevenBrock.KennethAllanChapman.RobertClark.CharlesTimothyDavis.CoryDavis.MichaelLeeElswick.WilliamI.Griffith.StevenHarrah.EdwardDeanJones.
3、RichardK.Lane.WilliamRooseveltLynch.NicholasDarrellMcCroskey.JoeMarcum.RonaldLeeMaynor.JamesE.Mooney.AdamKeithMorgan.RexL.Mullins.JoshuaS.Napper.HowardD.Payne.DillardEarlPersinger.JoelR.Price.DewardScott.GaryQuarles.GroverDaleSkeens.BennyWillingham.And
4、RickyWorkman.Analysis:Inthispart,thereisonlyonesentencewherespeakermakesalistofthenamesofvictims.Accordingtothewaythatcallingtheirnamesonebyone,thespeakershowsympathyandsadnesswhichcorrespondswiththefeelingsofaudience.Undoubetedly,thisdevicemakestherel
5、ationshipbetweenthespeakerandaudiencecloserimmediately.Hence,itispathosthatisusedherebyspeaker.paragraphtwonothingwesaycanfilltheholetheyleaveinyourhearts,ortheabsencethattheyleaveinyourlives.Analysis:Asforfiguresofspeech,thespeakerusesametopherinthese
6、ntence.Theword"hole"actuallyimpliesthesadnessofpeople.Undoubtedly,thisdevicemakesthelanguagemorevividandconvictive.Ifanycomfortcanbefound,itcan,perhaps,befoundbyseekingthefaceofGod--(applause)--whoquietsourtroubledminds,aGodwhomendsourbrokenhearts,aGod
7、whoeasesourmourningsouls.Analysis:Asforstyle,thespeakerusesaparallelisminthesentence,whichenhancestheemotionofthespeakerandthepowerofthesentence.Thereisnodoubtthattheparallelismindicateshowsadthepeopleiswhentheyloosetheseminers.paragraphthreeEvenaswemo
8、urn29liveslost,wealsoremember29liveslived.Analysis:Asforfiguresofspeech,thespeakerusesaoxymoroninthesentence.Theword"mourm"isoppositetotheword"remember",andtheword"lost"isoppositetothewordtheword"lived".Inthesentence,thespeakershowshowr
