Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The New Administration
Talk about beating a dead horse.Many times in the first half of the speech, Churchill mentions either the new members of his cabinet, or filling other positions in the administration in the near fu...
The Unnamed Enemy
We all know who Great Britain was at war with on May 13, 1940. If you don't, go do some review and come back. We'll wait…Right, so: Nazi Germany. If you want to get technical, it was the Axis pow...
Repetition
As Churchill gets more dramatic and turns on the poetry, he changes his syntax to a style that's much more designed for a speech than the first section of the text. Why does he repeat certain words...