Madeleine Albright Rhetorical Analysis

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The United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright delivered a speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College in 1997. Albright uses repeated phrases, personal experiences, and comparison to effectively convey her message that women should continue to take pride in what they do to embrace faith and inspiration. In paragraphs 3 to 7, Albright uses a repeated phrase to give examples of progress made. The repeated phrases she uses are “We could be satisfied with that” “We could relax” “We could turn our backs now.” etc. The purpose of adding “we could” is to let her audience know that they have to choose to decide their next step. She follows up the next sentence with the word “instead” at the beginning. The reason for that is to