Speech Analysis

I have just watched Barrack Obama’s Acceptance of the Candidacy Speech. He addressed the crowed with great confidence, charisma and he expressed his gratitude to the whole country on his success becoming the leading Democratic candidate.

After watching Obama’s style of speech and how the crowd related to everything that was mentioned in the speech I was stunned. His ability to show compassion in his voice and persuade the crowd to listen to his every word is achieved by emphasis, diction and anecdotes. Repetition of words was very effective in the speech. Obama used anecdotes to relate to the audience by sharing his past experiences. Obama’s success lies in his ability to use rhetorical, literary and narrative devices.

One aspect of the speech that was unexpected for me was the criticism of the opponent and the Bush administration by Obama. He pointed out the mistakes of the past two presidential terms and he related McCain to the mistakes. Obama mentions of McCain agreeing with Bush 90% of the time persuaded the audience more because it is real statistics. To strengthen his argument obama constantly pointed out the differentiation between him being republic and McCain democratic. Obama mentioned the problems caused by the previous administration and he shared his plans on how he and his administration will fix them if he is selected as president.

Lastly, in my opinion watching the speech gives a much better understanding of Obama’s points then reading it because of his speaking style, tone and face expressions. In addition the applause from the audience did not stop Obama from speaking with clarity and getting his points through.