Persuasion: Michelle Obama

Subject- The democratic National Convention and Obama's Campaign
Occasion- Democratic National Convention 2008. Denver CO, August 25th
Audience- Democrats, citizens of the U.S
Purpose- Persuade people to vote for Obama , to gain people's trust and to motivate democrats.
Style-Formal
Tone- Hopeful, Inspiring and Joyful
Speaker- Barack Obama's wife, also a democrat

Michelle Obama uses the following rhetorical devices: repetition, great diction and parallelism
For example she mentions the American dream a lot and talks about her children, she also repeats how her parents raised her and her brother.

The speaker did an excellent job because she had a great body language and eye contact. Her volume and pace were very good and lastly, she knew how to mange her tone. An example of this is that she sounded sad when speaking about her father and she sounded hopeful and confident when she raised her voice to state that her husband would make a great president, and the crowd would go insane.

In this speech, Michelle Obama appeals mostly to ethos. she also appeals to pathos but not as much. And i didn't really notice an appeal to logos. She appealed to ethos when saying that Barack would make a great president because he believes that every single person is capable of great success no matter their background. And she appealed to pathos when talking about her father, brother and daughters.

I believe that this speech was in fact effective because the speaker did a great job delivering the speech and because it turned out to be very persuasive thanks to the constant appeal made to ethos. The response of the audience shows how effective this speech was.