Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, is well known for his ambition with building a wall to keep people out of the country. Despite this ambition he gives an ironic speech called "American dream: perseverance". Throughout the speech he talks about overcoming obstacles, represented by walls. This is verbally ironic because through his campaign he talks about building a wall to stop people from coming to America. Trump tells the audience to overcome their obstacles while using simple diction and literary devises such as anaphora and epiphora to create a simple and ironic, yet interesting speech.
In his speech "American dream: perseverance", Trump talks about the obstacles in life and how we must overcome them. He refers to these obstacles as "walls". Then he tells the audience to overcome those "walls" in many different ways, such as to jump over them, go around them, and to destroy them. At the end of his speech he even contradicts himself by saying to "keep a balance" and then saying "let the positive outweigh the negative". His speech is very simple in diction and some of the things he says are either ironic or nonsensical. One of the main reason the speech is deemed ironic, and a little idiotic, is because he talks about overcoming "walls" even though most of his campaign was based upon building an anti-immigrant wall.
Throughout many parts of his speech he uses epiphora and anaphora. He uses it so much that it is present in more sentences than not.he he uses this to make his words, and therefore his idea, stuck to the reader. The whole text is also very ironic. Trump talks about overcoming walls, but he wants to put up a wall.
Trump uses anaphora and epiphora to get his message to his audience. Along with those literary devises he also uses very simple diction in order to widen his audience. Despite all of this is message is ironic and borderline idiotic considering he tells us to do the exact opposite of what his career stands for, keeping people out.
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