1. Literary Elements Used in Speeches

2. “There is imperious need for these vital munitions. They increase our strength against the powerfully armed enemy. They replace the wastage of the obstinate struggle; and the knowledge that wastage will speedily be replaced enables us to draw more readily upon our reserves and throw them in now that everything counts so much.” Winston Churchill - Be Ye Men of Valour

3. “There is imperious need for these vital munitions. They increase our strength against the powerfully armed enemy. They replace the wastage of the obstinate struggle; and the knowledge that wastage will speedily be replaced enables us to draw more readily upon our reserves and throw them in now that everything counts so much.” Winston Churchill - Be Ye Men of Valour

4. LOADED TERMS

5. "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne." Patrick Henry - Give me Liberty Speech

7. Parallelism

8. “Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none.” Churchill

10. Personification

11. “…the command of Isaiah– to ‘undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free’.” From JFK

13. Allusion

14. "Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?" Patrick Henry

16. Rhetorical Questions

17. "Give me liberty, or give me death." Patrick Henry

19. Aphorism

20. "Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss." Patrick Henry - Give me Liberty Speech

21. Who else in history was famously betrayed by a kiss?

22. Allusion

23. Ask not what your country can do for you —ask what you can do for your country. -JFK

25. Aphorism

26. “Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?” –JFK Inaugural Address

28. Rhetorical Questions

29. “… on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance…” Roosevelt

31. Parallelism

32. "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." --Ben Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence

34. Aphorism

35. ... For if we lose the ability to perceive our faults, what is the good of living on? --Marcus Aurelius

37. Rhetorical Questions