Analysis of Greta Thunberg’s Speech
Choose one of the speeches linked below to analyze for this week’s writing assignment. Then, follow these steps:
Read the speech carefully to be sure you understand the speaker’s thesis.
Read the speech again, looking for appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos.
Mark up and annotate the speech as you learned how to do in this module.
As you annotate, consider the following questions:
Given the rhetorical situation (the speaker, her audience, and the setting), how effective is each type of appeal likely to be? Why?
Does the speech include any logical fallacies? What effect would these likely have had on the audience?
Use your notes to draft an essay that describes the speaker’s argument and identifies any fallacies in it.
Revise your essay to ensure that it is logically organized and uses examples and direct quotations from the speech to support your claims.
Proofread your essay to eliminate any grammar, spelling, or punctuation errors.
***Submit your marked up copy of the speech along with the final draft of your essay to your teacher.
I NEED ATTACHED SPEECH MARKED UP FOR THE APPEALS AND ANNOTATE THE SPEECH; AND THEN I NEED ONE PAGE WITH JUST AN ESSAY AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
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Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit employs all three rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos, to convey her message about the crucial significance of addressing the climate crisis. Furthermore, her speech appeals to the emotions of its audience by condemning world leaders, issuing a warning, and employing other emotive languages (Guardian News, 2019). The appeal to emotions in the speech may be considered a logical fallacy since the speaker manipulates the audience’s emotions, especially when there is no factual evidence. As a result, Thunberg’s speech contains logical fallacies, which may have a detrimental effect on her audience and credibility.
Thunberg appeals to the emotions of her audience by painting a vivid picture of the devastating impacts of climate change on the natural world and human lives and by expressing her fear and anger about the lack of action to address the crisis. For instance, in this line, she calls on world leaders to take decisive and immediate i...