【正文】 age effectively as it is about municating a convincing argument.Obviously, one of the major factors to be a good or a bad speech is whether the use of rhetoric is appropriate or not. It can be found that the use of rhetoric plays a very important role in content. The definition of rhetoric is applying many language materials and various expressive devices to manifest the orator’s purpose appropriately. Without the use of rhetoric, absolutely, there is no good content. Therefore, it is necessary to make an analysis and study on this subject.The whole thesis is concerned about the use of rhetoric in English speech, and the thesis is divided into three parts. The first part talks about the definition and function of speech. The second part illustrates the definition and function of rhetoric. The third part makes a carefully study on the use of main rhetorical devices in English speech, such as, simile, metaphor, parallelism, alliteration and repetition, antithesis , rhetorical question and so on.1．Speech The Definition of Speech One of the definitions of speech which is a formal talk that a person gives to the audiences, to express his/her views or emotions on a specific issue, or to conduct propaganda activities so as to achieve inspiring the audience and promote its action as a informationsharing activities. The benefit of a speech is obvious —mass munication. Orators want to engage audience39。 要 An Analysis of Rhetoric in English Speec4 Simile9 Alliteration15Bibliography修辭是一種重要的語(yǔ)言表達(dá)手段，是用簡(jiǎn)單具體且充滿想象的方法將抽象復(fù)雜的思想或進(jìn)程闡釋出來(lái)，能夠促進(jìn)情感的傳遞和思想的表達(dá)。 修辭 。s “I have a dream” speech, It can be found that, in this sentence, “justice”, “righteousness” are “the tenor” and “waters” , “a mighty stream” are “the vehicle”. The word “l(fā)ike” signals this sentence makes use of the rhetoric device—simile. Thus by using simile, this sentence makes this two words“justice” and “righteousness” more vivid and lively. It means that we will not quit until justice is as plentiful as water and is raining on all of us and the force of its power to enforce equality and fairness is as powerful and inevitable as the force of a large river. This simile is effective because it municates not only the extent of his hope but also the passion he has for the fulfillment of his expectations to bee a powerful force that will not be stopped.Another example: so that no one man would get half of it and hand it down to a son, who takes half of what was left, and that son hand it down to another one, who would take half of what was left, until, like a snowball going downhill, all of the snow was off of the ground except what the snowball had.”(Huey P. Long, Every Man a King Radio Speech to the Nation)⑦“Indians, Chinamen, Filipinos, Japanese and representatives of any other dark race can find hotel acmodations, if they can pay for them. The colored man alone is thrust out of the hotels of the national capital like a leper.”(Mary Church Terrell, What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the .) MetaphorMetaphor can also transfer qualities from one thing to another. There is a formal difference between metaphor and simile, however, in metaphor the word like or as do not appear. A metaphor, like a simile, also has a parison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this parison is implied rather than stated. This means the words like or as are omitted. For instance, You are like the sun is a simile, but You are my sunshine is a metaphor.Metaphor is not explicitly signaled, so they are more difficult to identify. In metaphor, one thing is directly pared to another thing, without the marker—“l(fā)ike” or “as”. Thus the relationship between them is implied in other words is unstated. The use of metaphor in rhetoric is primarily to convey to the audience a new idea or meaning by linking it to an existing idea or meaning with which the audience is already familiar. By making the new appear to be linked to or a type of the old and familiar, the person using the metaphor hopes to help the audience understand the new.The following is a good example:Franklin Roosevelt used this technique in his 1933 inaugural address when he stated that, to cite one example, the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side.One would not immediately pare factories with a forest。 who still questions the power of our democracy，tonight is your answer. ” This sentence is from Barack Osama’s Victory Speech. The triple use of “who still”, there are three parallel verb phrases—“doubts” “wonders” “questions”.Another example, in Obama39。 we shall fight in France。 we shall fight on the beaches。 we shall never surrender.”In another example, Churchill used repetition in a 1941 speech at Harrow: this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.Churchill39。t have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can39。t have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there.If I had sneezed, I wouldn39。ve Been to the Mountaintop)②“I want to be the President who educated young children to the wonders of their world. I want to be the President who helped to feed the hungry and to prepare them to be taxpayers instead of taxeaters.I want to be the President who helped the poor to find their own way and who protected the right of every citizen to vote in every election.I want to be the President who helped to end hatred among his fellow men, and who promoted love among the people of all races and all regions and all parties.I want to be the President who helped to end war among the brothers of this earth.”(Lyndon Baines Johnson, Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation)③“As an American, I am shocked at the way Rep