The Shuttle Challenger Rhetorical Analysis

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A day, disguised as extraordinary, ends up as a national disaster. President Ronald Reagan addresses the nation on a serious and tragic topic. In President Ronald Reagan's speech about the explosion of the shuttle challenger, which had a teacher inside, and a nation watching, he effectively convinced an audience to grieve but not hold on to this devastating historical moment. He did so by using rhetorical devices such as loaded language: “Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the Shuttle Challenger”(Reagan 1) and he used metaphors, for example “Touch the face of God” (Regan 2) to show his emotion. Though he was sad, he persevered and was able to inform the nation of the incident, using loaded language and metaphors and a few
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