Study on anaphora in US Presidents' speeches

The study is the study on the use of one of the rhetorical devices – anaphora – in political speeches by U.S Presidents. Its objective is to analyze the effectiveness of anaphora in the selected speeches. The anaphora analyzed in this thesis includes the repetition of same structural patterns and the use of the first plural personal pronoun “we”. Out of five speeches, two are Bill Clinton’s Inaugural Addresses and three are George W. Bush’s speeches concerning the war on Iraq, worldwide terrorism and peace in the Middle East. The conclusion can be drawn that U.S Presidents deliberately use anaphora as a rhetorical device in their speeches to effectively get their messages across.

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