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1、AnalysisofObama'sspeechRhetoricalsetting:EpideicticOratoryEthos:SincetheoratoristheAmericanpresidentofprestigeandknowshowtobeatrustworthyindividualbyexhibitingintellengence,goodsense,virtue,andgoodwill,thespeechappearstobemorepowerfulandconvincingthanacommonpeople'saddress.paragraphoneWe'r
2、eheretomemorialize29Americans:CarlAcord.JasonAtkins.ChristopherBell.GregoryStevenBrock.KennethAllanChapman.RobertClark.CharlesTimothyDavis.CoryDavis.MichaelLeeElswick.WilliamI.Griffith.StevenHarrah.EdwardDeanJones.RichardK.Lane.WilliamRooseveltLynch.NicholasDarrellMcCroskey.JoeMarcum.Ronal
3、dLeeMaynor.JamesE.Mooney.AdamKeithMorgan.RexL.Mullins.JoshuaS.Napper.HowardD.Payne.DillardEarlPersinger.JoelR.Price.DewardScott.GaryQuarles.GroverDaleSkeens.BennyWillingham.AndRickyWorkman.Analysis:Inthispart,thereisonlyonesentencewherespeakermakesalistofthenamesofvictims.Accordingtotheway
4、thatcallingtheirnamesonebyone,thespeakershowsympathyandsadnesswhichcorrespondswiththefeelingsofaudience.Undoubetedly,thisdevicemakestherelationshipbetweenthespeakerandaudiencecloserimmediately.Hence,itispathosthatisusedherebyspeaker.paragraphtwonothingwesaycanfilltheholetheyleaveinyourhear
5、ts,ortheabsencethattheyleaveinyourlives.Analysis:Asforfiguresofspeech,thespeakerusesametopherinthesentence.Theword"hole"actuallyimpliesthesadnessofpeople.Undoubtedly,thisdevicemakesthelanguagemorevividandconvictive.Ifanycomfortcanbefound,itcan,perhaps,befoundbyseekingthefaceofGod--(applaus
6、e)--whoquietsourtroubledminds,aGodwhomendsourbrokenhearts,aGodwhoeasesourmourningsouls.Analysis:Asforstyle,thespeakerusesaparallelisminthesentence,whichenhancestheemotionofthespeakerandthepowerofthesentence.Thereisnodoubtthattheparallelismindicateshowsadthepeopleiswhentheyloosetheseminers.
7、paragraphthreeEvenaswemourn29liveslost,wealsoremember29liveslived.Analysis:Asforfiguresofspeech,thespeakerusesaoxymoroninthesentence.Theword"mourm"isoppositetotheword"remember",andtheword"lost"isoppositetothewordtheword"lived".Inthesentence,thespeakershowshowr
