1. SPEECHES: What are they really saying?
8.7A: Analyze passages in well-known speeches for the author’s use of literary devices and word and phrase choice (e.g., aphorisms, epigraphs) to appeal to the audience.
SPEECHES: What are they really saying?

2. Speech writers use something called literary devices to enhance their speeches.
Literary devices are things like:
metaphor hyperboles
simile imagery
aphorism irony
epigraph oxymoron

3. ok. WHat are those things miss teacher lady?
aphorism- a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and humorous manner.
Pride comes before the fall.

4. aphorisms
Continuous effort- not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

5. aphorisms
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
Joseph De Maistre

6. aphorisms
The only person you have to compare yourself to is you in the past.
Sigmund Freud

7. epigraph- is a literary device in the form of a poem, quotation, or sentence usually placed at the beginning of a document but which belongs to another writer.

8. hyperbole hyperbole- a deliberate exaggeration used for effect
I stood in line and waited an eternity to get on the plane this morning.

9. hyperbole
I had a ton of homework last night.

10. hyperbole
He is skinny as a toothpick.

11. irony
irony- a method of humorous or sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the exact opposite of their usual meaning.
Example:

12. irony

13. irony

14. oxymoron
oxymoron- a combination of words that have very different or opposite meanings.
Examples: awfully good icy hot
bitter sweet jumbo shrimp
crash landing old news
found missing pretty ugly

15. oxymoron
icy hot?

16. oxymoron
pretty ugly?

17. oxymoron
crash landing!