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Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

S.O.A.P.S.Tone

Structure: Cause-Effect

Based on premise that a country that is attacked must defend itself militarily.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

-short, medium, and long

-parallel and balanced structure

-declarative

-Attack on Pearl Harbor

Sentence Structure:

-Address to Congress to declare war on Japan.

Occasion (Immediate):

Subject:

Mood:

Purpose:

-somber

-prideful

-To ask Congress to declare war on Japan.

-To inform nation on the Pearl Harbor attack and what's going to be done about it.

-repetition

-apostrophe

-strong, confident voice

-many pauses

Speaker's Style:

Figurative Language:

Tone:

-factual

-informative

-urgent

-confident

-disillusioned

Atmosphere:

Speaker:

Occasion (Larger)

P.O.V.

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

-President of the United States of America

-Head of State

-Commander in Chief

-December 1941

-Pearl Harbor Attacks

-World War II

-somber

-anger

-shock

-prideful

-first person

Diction:

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=ac_symeSDdLuRM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt&docid=eXvjDIpiRJxViM&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/FDR_in_1933.jpg/220px-FDR_in_1933.jpg&w=220&h=259&ei=nTBTUNqTHorU9QSyx4GoBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=189&vpy=177&dur=445&hovh=207&hovw=176&tx=79&ty=123&sig=103507194435970989367&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=114&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:155

-infamy (polysyllabic, euphonious, formal)

-solicitation (polysyllabic, cacophonous, formal)

-deliberately (polysyllabic, cacophonous, formal)

-intervening (polysyllabic, formal)

-regret (polysyllabic, cacophonous, formal)

-deceive (polysyllabic, cacophonous, formal)

-premeditated (polysyllabic, formal)

-onslaught (polysyllabic, cacophonous, formal)

-dastardly (polysyllabic, cacophonous, formal)

-war (monosyllabic, concrete)

Audience:

-Congress

-The Nation

-The Empire of Japan

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

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