Analysis of Rhetorical Techniques in Harry's Speech on the NHS

This report provides an analysis of a speech by Harry, focusing on the rhetorical devices employed and their impact. The report examines the use of emotive language, metaphors, and the rule of three to persuade the audience. It highlights the impact of these techniques on the audience, including the use of direct address and personal pronouns. The report also explores why statistics were not used and concludes with whether the speech would be persuasive. This analysis delves into the specific examples of imagery, and the overall effectiveness of the speech in conveying its message about the NHS. The report explores the effectiveness of the language used by Harry to generate an emotional response from the audience and the use of personal experiences to relate with the audience.

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What effect on the audience does Harry’s use of humor have?
This can be seen that Harry is trying to influence the people by the use of emotional language
where it impacted positively on different individuals within that conference.
Identify three quotes that show Harry using emotive language in his speech.
There are different codes of emotive language in the speech of Harry which are be identified
below:
 My childhood was not like an episode from Downton Abbey.
 Because public health care didn't exist
 Tuberculosis tortured my sister and left her invalid
Identify one metaphor used by Harry.
Today, we must be vigilant, we must be vocal, we must demand that the NHS must always
remain an institution for the people and by the people.
Identify three examples of triplet (rule of 3) used by Harry.
His generation was "galvanised" after the Second World War to become "the tide that raised
all boats", and his experiences led him to vote Labour and for the creation of the NHS in
1945.
"My heart is also with the people of the present, who because of welfare cuts and austerity
measures are struggling once more to make ends meet, and whose futures I fear for," he
added.
"Today, we must be vigilant, we must be vocal, we must demand that the NHS must always
remain an institution for the people and by the people."
Identify three examples of imagery used by Harry and in each quote, identify any
adjectives you can find.
"Instead, it was a barbarous time, it was a bleak time, and it was an uncivilised time, because
public health care didn't exist."
Hospitals, doctors and medicine were for "the privileged few, because they were run by
profit", he said.
"My memories stretch back almost a hundred years, and if I close my eyes, I can smell the
poverty that oozes from the dusty tenement streets of my boyhood," he added.
Harry uses direct address and personal pronouns frequently in his speech. What effect
does this have on the audience?
All these are impactful on the audience as well as help in building interest of different
audience towards the speech of Harry
Statistics are often used when trying to persuade, but Harry does not use any. Why do
you think this is?

This is because statics will reduce the emotional connect which was tried by Harry in order
to execute his speech in effective manner.
If you were in the audience, would Harry’s speech have persuaded you that the NHS
should be kept in public hands?
Yes I will definitely