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A 3 page essay that argues that President George W. Bush's address to the nature after 9/11 demonstrates the elements of eloquence in speech-making. Examination of this speech shows that it draws its tremendous emotional appeal from several features. First of all, there is the context of the rhetorical situation. To this situation, President Bush brought the use of vivid imagery, memorable lines, and the intense appeal of pathos and patriotism. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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September 20. This eloquent speech galvanized a nation in mourning and provided the Bush Administration with unprecedented support for its policies and actions in dealing with the global threat
of terrorism. Examination of this speech shows that it draws its tremendous emotional appeal from several features. First of all, there is the context of the rhetorical situation. To this
situation, President Bush brought the use of vivid imagery, memorable lines, and the intense appeal of pathos and patriotism. Naturally, these elements are not employed in isolation, but rather
work collectively to provide cohesiveness to the fabric of the speech. First of all, the context of the rhetorical situation is also a part of the message. The "president appearing
before a giant US flag in the chamber of the House of Representative is as much a part of his speech as are the words he speaks" (Zarefsky 604). This
is particularly true in regards to the feeling in the country after 9/11, which the president immediately alluded to in his speech as the "state of the Union." He presented
a series of strikingly vivid images as indicative of the "state of our Union," which included "the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion," as well as the "unfurling of flags,
the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers--in English, Hebrew and Arabic" (Bush). However, having invoked a feeling of pathos through images of what was occurring
in the country at that time, the president then moved on to the central issue by saying that the 9/11 events "awakened" the country "to danger" and to the need
"to defend freedom" (Bush). As Zarefsky points out, President Bush immediately reacted to the 9/11 events in terms of war (Zarefsky 604). In memorable lines, President Bush summed up
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