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  • To spread awareness about AIDS & HIV
  • AIDS was the 3rd leading cause of death in US
  • She was a living example

  • After the speech, Fisher became a leading AIDS activist
  • The speech had a great affect on the audience
  • About bringing the issue of HIV & AIDS to the audience's attention
  • Fisher tells us about what people go through and how they are treated
  • She speaks of her personal experiences
  • Expresses feelings about how to deal with someone you love has the disease
  • Kills many people and there is nothing you can do
  • It is important to make the country aware about the consequences
  • Prevention
  • Is treating abstractions or inanimate objects as human, that is, giving them human attributes, powers, or feelings

Example:

“HIV marches resolutely towards AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its pathway with the bodies of the young”

Conclusion

Lets Talk!

  • Fisher uses many techniques to convey her message
  • Her main point is to inform the audience about the affects of HIV & AIDS

1. In a part of the speech Fisher says, "We have killed each

other-with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence.

" She is talking about HIV. What do you think she meant by prejudice and ignorance?

2. What was the theme of the speech? Why you think it is such a sensitive topic at the time?

3. After going through our analysis of the speech, what rhetorical device/ technique is most effective?

4. Do you think a speech is the best way to educate the public about medical dilemmas? What other tactics can be used?

5. What are your personal opinions?

6. In the conclusion, Fisher says, "Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word AIDS when I am gone. Then their children, and yours, may not need to whisper it at all. " What do you think the title means, relative to those lines?

Appeal to Fear

  • Uses information likely to frighten the audience for the purpose of strengthening a speaker’s argument

Examples:

“Largely unknown a decade ago, AIDS is the third leading killer of young-adult Americans today-but it won't be third for long. Because, unlike other diseases, this one travels.”

  • Appeals to the audience’s sense of what is moral and right

Examples:

“We cannot love justice and ignore prejudice, love our children and fear to teach them”

  • Appeals to the audience's love of the country

Examples:

“But we do the President's cause no good if we praise the American family but ignore a virus that destroys it”

Thank You for your Time!

Appeal to Fairness

& Justice

Appeal to Patriotism

Mood

Personification

  • Is the return of a word, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature

Examples:

“Because I was not hemophiliac, I was not at risk. Because I was not gay, I was not at risk. Because I did not inject drugs, I was not at risk.”

“Young men. Young women. Young parents. Young children. One of the families is mine”

  • she is very persuasive
  • serious tone
  • its clear that she is trying to educate the citizens about HIV's rapid spread & parents should be educating their kids

  • topic has been neglected for a long time due to embarrassment

Repetition

Background

Information

Summary

Context

RHETORICAL DEVICES & TECHNIQUES

  • At the Republican National Convention
  • In 1992
  • Audience consisted of the Republican Party & media

"A Whisper of Aids"

Speech by Mary Fisher

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