rhetorical devices in heforshe speech

Rhetorical devices are language techniques used to make a speech more interesting, convincing, or memorable. The most used rhetorical devices in Emma Watson’s “HeForShe Speech”, are enumerations and repetitions, rhetorical questions, and direct address.

Emma Watson is a feminist and role model for young girls who are confused why they are suddenly treated different to boys and gives them an answer to why, and shows that there is a problem with gender equality that needs to be addressed.

Modes of persuasion are also considered rhetorical devices. They refer to the strategy a sender uses to make a speech more appealing and convincing. These are pathos—appealing to emotions, ethos—appealing to trust, authority, and shared values, and logos—appealing to logical reasoning.

In this paper, focus is made on several common and frequently used English rhetoric devices in a case study of Emma Watson’s HeForShe and analyze their pragmatic functions. The current research involves 4 English rhetoric devices: parallelism, rhetoric question，irony and contrast. The 4 rhetoric devices belong to 2 types:

This study focuses on finding out the rhetorical devices used by Simon Sinek when delivering an inspirational speech and how they affect Simon Sinek’s inspirational speech.

By applying various rhetorical devices in her speech, Emma Watson tries to create a simple yet clear attention-grabbing speech. Among the rhetorical devices found in her speech are parallelism, the rule of three, and shifting use of personal pronoun I, you, and we.

In that case, this paper aims to explore the use of rhetorical devices in Emma Watson's speech which includes the rule of three, parallelism, and variation of personal pronoun use. Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics CALLS

In that case, this paper aims to explore the use of rhetorical devices in Emma Watson’s speech which includes the rule of three, parallelism, and variation of personal pronoun use. Keywords: discourse, speech, rhetorical devices.

Emma Watson's Magic Spell in Gender Equality: the Use of Rhetorical Devices in “Heforshe” Campaign. N. Valiantien. Published 1 December 2015. Sociology. A movement to raise awareness towards gender equality issue has been promoted by the UN through the campaign called “HeforShe”.

Rhetorical devices. Logos, ethos, and pathos. Circumstances. Purpose. The speech is also known as "Gender equality is your issue too", referring to one of its most quoted passages. You can watch the speech here. Emma Watson (b. 1990) is a British actress and activist.