1. President Obama’s Inaugural Address Rhetorical Strategies Analysis

2. TPS: What stood out to you in Obama’s speech? Don’t use rhetorical terms- look over your annotations and see if you can find any trends/patterns.

3. Rhetorical Strategies Imagery- Specific images? Repetition?  Water  Weather  Ocean Anaphora  Repeated words at the beginning of consecutive sentences

4. Rhetorical Strategies Contrasts  Makes ideas more striking, allows readers to categorize in a good vs. bad way The Power of Three  Used to emphasize, make things memorable Words (hendiatris), parallel elements like phrases (tricolon)

5. Rhetorical Strategies As always, ethos/logos/pathos/mithos  Establishing _________  Facts  Emotional appeals Allusions  Bible  Declaration of Independence