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How to analyze a speech (rhetorical devices) in 3 steps
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- hello today let's take a look at how to analyze speeches looking for rhetorical devices so one of the tasks you often have to deal with in a "Klausur" (exam) is
- looking at a speech and then analyzing it and often one of the things you focus on in this analysis is looking for rhetorical devices this can be really
- tricky but today I'll make it easier for you and show you the three steps you can take to make this easier first that will be how do you find the right devices
- when reading the text second step is how do you focus on the correct devices because you cannot describe everything that's in the text and my last step will
- be how do you write a text about these devices and construct sensible paragraphs let's go so let us take a look how to analyze a speech first of
- all obviously you should read the text but there's some there's some advice I can give you even on just reading the text first of all when you read you
- should already mark the devices but there is a problem here because if you don't know what you should be marking it will be hard to mark something let me
- make a comparison say you're walking on a beach and you're trying to look for seashells now if you don't know what seashells look like or what seashells
- are interesting or special you you're not likely to find very interesting sea shots so you should know exactly what you're looking for in a speech you don't
- really have to know all the rhetorical devices but in speech what will most likely appear is a rhetorical question some form of repetition this could be
- like an anaphora; anaphora is the beginning of a sentence that is always the same like as in "I do not know where we will find..."; "I do not know what ..."
- and so forth or the rule of three which is three things mentioned in a row or the parallelism which I'll make an example of later or you will have things
- like the use of an 'inclusive we' to create a feeling of unity or something like this so while reading keep an eye out for these things and mark them
- already the second step is evaluate what you have found so again like with the seashells we don't just want to count everything that's on the beach but we're
- looking for interesting things which devices does the speaker use often so more than once which devices are very interesting or are striking in the way
- that they're used and which devices support the message best that the speaker's trying to make. The last step is "write" of course, how do you write that?
- Now there's some real good advice that I can give you on that: Write in paragraphs! It shouldn't be one text without I don't know any sign of structure but should be
- paragraphs and the paragraphs in your main part should look like this they should have the name of the device say alliteration
- they should have a quote or reference; a quote is where you really quote something from the text, a reference is where you only refer to so you only give
- a line number this can be this can make sense depending on the circumstance and there should be an explanation of what the effect or what the intended effect
- or intention of this device is. You shouldn't use copy and paste phrases here so that means don't always write "the speaker uses this device to make the
- text more interesting" - next device: "the speaker uses this device to make the text more interesting" - of course that's not completely wrong but it's also not
- really completely right and it doesn't really describe the very text you're reading here. To make that easier for you I have got an example here try to
- remember the colors half years I've read for name of the device yellow for quote a reference and green for intention and effect of the
- explanation. My example (again keep in mind the colors it's like in a stop light right if you have red yellow and green, red is the name yellow is the
- reference or the quote and green is the explanation): "Talking about climate change, Obama uses a parallelism (I've named the device) when he points out that in
- America in our West and in our Heartland (this is the quote/reference to the text) the negative effects can already be felt. Thus it becomes clear that (and
- now comes my explanation of the effect) the problem does not lie in the future but affects US citizens today. By mentioning different regions in the USA
- Obama underlines that the effects are not limited to specific areas." Of course your format, or your style can vary and can change significantly
- but generally speaking your paragraph should include this information name of device reference to the text explanation of the effect. So, that was my video on
- finding, evaluating and writing about rhetorical devices you can find in speeches. I hope it helped you a little bit, let me know if you got along with it
- if you have any other questions or comments please contact me. See you soon! Goodbye!