Assertion Analysis Blog #2: Barak Obama

          On September 7, 2018, the 44th president of the united states, Barack Obama, stood before an audience of a University of Illinois with one purpose, to inspire them to take action and vote. Obama's writing style is very interesting and used by him in a very effective way. Obama uses things such as hope, encouragement, and inspiring words to help his intended audience not only understand his message, but get behind it. Obama uses sophisticated literary devises such as anaphora, tricolons, POV shifts, and allusions to entangle his audience, which in this case was youth and new voters, in his message and call for action.
          In his speech, Obama tells us that he is hopeful, encouraged, and that he sees a great awakening of citizenship. He the uses active verbs such as "they're marching", "they're running", and "they're organizing". He does this to show actions and tell the audience what we should be doing. Throughout most of the speech Obama does this in many ways, appealing to the audience's sense of duty, responsibility and patriotism.
          Obama uses a lot of the same literary devises many times across the speech. When giving an example, he will almost always use tricolons. When giving an anecdote, he will often use allusions. Another thing he does very often is change point of view. Obama will go from first person, to third person, to second person. He uses those changes in perspective to first unite himself with his audience, then uses third person to address the people individually and make them feel special, unique, and empowered.
        In conclusion, Obama uses his set of literary devises such as allusions, anecdotes, tricolons, and changes in perspective in order to get is audience's attention and get them to do what he says. This is very effective, specially in the audience he used it on, because he appeals to pathos and the sense of responsibility in everyone. All of these things are what make Obama an effective speaker.