Rhetoric
Rhetoric Midterm

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Subject:   QUESTION
Name:   Sheryl Avery
Date Posted:   Oct 21, 07 - 10:48 AM
Email:   ijanice5@yahoo.com
Website:   http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/rhetoric
Message:   QUESTION
Considering he was vastly outnumbered by the French 5 to 1, what stragedy and rhetorical devices did Henry V employed in his speech St. Crispin's Day to elicit a positive approach from his men to comply with his wishes to go to war against the French?

ANSWER: He refute the logic of the appeal by using pathos, tetracolon, fable, anaphoa, polyptoton, common place rhetoric, and a sense of nationalism to incite his men to fight for their country. The logical argument is that is men is vastly outnumbered. Henry V incite his men when he played with their emotions by instilling a sense of pride in using tetracolon to list four famous countrymen before them, fable to paint a more appealing picture of a future, and common place rhetoric to impart knowledge that is commonly shared among the men. This is seen when he declares, "And gentlemen in England now a-bed / Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,/ And hold their manhoods cheep whiles any speaks / That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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Re: QUESTION by Nordquist · Oct 21, 07 - 3:02 PM


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