Rhetorical Analysis on Obama's Victory Speech 奥巴马获胜演讲的修辞分析

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1、RhetoricalAnalysisonObama'sVictorySpeechAbstractBarackHusseinObamaisthe44thandcurrentPresidentoftheUnitedStates.HeopensanewchapterinAmericanhistoryasthefirstAfricanAmericantoholdtheoffice.Obamaisregardedtobeoneofthegreatestspeakersintheworldnow.BarackOb

2、ama’spresidentialvictoryspeechisaperfectexampleofEnglishspeechesfeaturingflowerylanguageandelaboraterhetoric.Itaboundswithvariousrhetoricdevicessuchasparallelism,metaphor,alliteration,repetitionandsoon,fabricatinganinspiringmelodyoftext,leavingalingerin

3、gimpressionontheaudience.Thepresentpaperconcentratesonthestudyofthisspeechfromtheperspectiveofparallelismbasedontheallsentencesinthespeech，withtheaimtostudytheparallelismfeaturesofthespeechsoastohaveabetterappreciationofObama’sartofpublicspeakingandthem

4、eaningofthespeech.Fromthespeech,wecanlearnhowheprocuredthesupportfromthepublicusingeffectivelexical,syntaxandrhetoricaldevices.KeyWordsObamapresidentialvictoryspeechrhetoricaldeviceparallelism奥巴马获胜演讲的修辞分析摘要巴拉克·侯赛因·奥巴马是美国第四十四届也是现任总统。作为一个非洲裔美国人奥巴马无疑在美国历史上

5、翻开了崭新的篇章，并被誉为当今世界上最伟大的演讲家之一。他在芝加哥的获胜演讲展现了其演说词精于语言，巧于修辞的特点，运用了平行结构、比喻、头韵、反复等多种修辞手段。这些修辞格的交错使用，织就了鼓舞人心的美丽篇章，产生了余音绕梁的艺术效果。本文主要从排比的角度，依照演讲的内容，对奥巴马的当选演说进行分析，揭示其文体特征，赏析其利用音韵、词汇、句法、修辞手段来传达意义，进行劝说并获取公众支持的演讲艺术。关键字奥巴马总统获胜演讲修辞手段排比ⅠIntroductionBarackObamawasborninH

6、awaii,andhisfatherwasastudentfromKenyawhilehismotherwasawhiteKansas.ObamagraduatedfromColumbiaUniversityandHarvardUniversity,andforthefirsttimein1996,hewaselectedIllinoissenatorwhilein2004,forthefirsttimeelectedasaSenator,tobecometheU.S.Congressinthehis

7、toryofthe5thsessionofCongress----theonlyblacksenator.InJuly2004,theconveningoftheDemocraticcomes.ObamahasbeensuccessfullydesignatedasthePresidentoftheUnitedStates.HethendeliveredhisvictoryspeechinChicago.ObamaisthefirstAfrican-AmericanpresidentinAmerica

8、nhistory.Hissuccesscatchestheinternationalattention.Heisseemedanaturalspeaker.Whenlistentohisspeech,everyoneismovedandarousedbyhiswordsandvoice.InObama’svictoryspeech,heproposedtheeliminationofdifferencesbetweenpoliticalpartiesan