A Night Full of Rhetoric!

Besides the MTV music awards ( which happened to end right before Obama's speech AND just happened to be on a thursday night when always aired on a sunday), Obama gave his acceptance speech to run as democratic candidate.

Please watch speech and answer the following questions:

1.What is the occasion of this speech? Why is he giving it?

2.Who is his audience?

3.How does he develop his credibility? What specific things does he say that help us as listeners believe what he is saying?

4.What is the subject?

5. What is his purpose? What does he want?

6. What is his tone? How do you know?

7. Can you identify any rhetorical devices he uses to grab the listeners attention or make his speech more powerful? (Alliteration, imagery, allusions, etc...)

Here is link or you can just google "Barack Obama DNC speech"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9527379/US-Election-2012-Barack-Obamas-DNC-speech-in-full.html