They knew their kids would say a prayer at night before they left. They knew their wives would wait for a call when their shift ended saying everything was okay. They knew their parents felt a pang of fear every time a breaking news alert came on, or the radio cut in."
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they became a family themselves -- sharing birthdays, relaxing together, watching Mountaineers football or basketball together, spending days off together, hunting or fishing. Analysis: Figures of speech, it uses epistrophe to show the logic. It also increase the sense of rhythm and rhyme beauty. This part highlights the miners' unity.
Analysis: In this part, the speaker sates the contributions that miners made, according to first-person point of view.Undoubtedly, it makes the relationship between speaker and audience closer. Therefore, pathos is used here.
Analysis: Figures of speech, this part uses parallelism to increase the sense of rhythm and rhyme beauty and emphasize the risks of the miners' work. It also highlights the miners' greatness and causes the audience' emotion, so it is pathos.
Analysis:
Figures of speech, it uses parallelism to increase the sense of rhythm and rhyme beauty and emphasize the miners' hard. This vivid description causes human emotions, so it is pathos.
paragraph two
nothing we say can fill the hole they leave in your hearts, or the absence that they leave in your lives. Analysis: As for figures of speech, the speaker uses a metopher in the sentence. The word "hole" actually implies the sadness of people. Undoubtedly, this device makes the language more vivid and convictive. If any comfort can be found, it can, perhaps, be found by seeking the face of God -- (applause) -- who quiets our troubled minds, a God who mends our broken hearts, a God who eases our mourning souls. Analysis: As for style, the speaker uses a parallelism in the sentence, which enhances the emotion of the speaker and the power of the sentence. There is no doubt that the parallelism indicates how sad the people is when they loose these miners.
paragraph three
Even as we mourn 29 lives lost, we also remember 29 lives lived.
Analysis: As for figures of speech, the speaker uses a oxymoron in the sentence. The word "mourm" is opposite to the word " remember", and the word "lost" is opposite to the word the word "lived". In the sentence, the speaker shows how respectable the miners are although they past away.
And so these miners lived -- as they died -- in pursuit of the American Dream."
Analysis:
Figures of speech, it uses oxymoron in this part. The speaker want the audience pay attention to it. Then they remember those miners.
Paragraph five
And most days they'd emerge from the dark mine, squinting at the light. Most days, they'd emerge, sweaty and dirty and dusted from coal. Most days, they'd come home.
paragraph four
Day after day, they would burrow into the coal, the fruits of their labor, what so often we take for granted: the electricity that lights up a convention center; that lights up our church or our home, our school, our office; the energy that powers our country; the energy that powers the world.
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All that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground, it was all for the families. It was all for you.
Analysis:
Figures of speech, this part uses anaphora and climax. The former shows the miners' hard for their work and strengthen the audience' impression. The latter deepens the audience' feeling gradually, so it also belong to pathos.
Analysis of Obama's speech
பைடு நூலகம்hetorical setting: Epideictic Oratory
Ethos:
Since the orator is the American president of prestige and knows how to be a trust worthy individual by exhibiting intellengence, good sense ,virtue, and good will, the speech appears to be more powerful and convincing than a common people's address.
paragraph one
We're here to memorialize 29 Americans: Carl Acord. Jason Atkins. Christopher Bell. Gregory Steven Brock. Kenneth Allan Chapman. Robert Clark. Charles Timothy Davis. Cory Davis. Michael Lee Elswick. William I. Griffith. Steven Harrah. Edward Dean Jones. Richard K. Lane. William Roosevelt Lynch. Nicholas Darrell McCroskey. Joe Marcum. Ronald Lee Maynor. James E. Mooney. Adam Keith Morgan. Rex L. Mullins. Joshua S. Napper. Howard D. Payne. Dillard Earl Persinger. Joel R. Price. Deward Scott. Gary Quarles. Grover Dale Skeens. Benny Willingham. And Ricky Workman. Analysis: In this part, there is only one sentence where speaker makes a list of the names of victims. According to the way that calling their names one by one, the speaker show sympathy and sadness which corresponds with the feelings of audience.Undoubetedly, this device makes the relationship between the speaker and audience closer immediately. Hence, it is pathos that is used here by speaker.