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m0ch1

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Hi guys, for my first HSC assessment I need to analyse 3 different texts that are to be asked about in the exam. I really need help with analysing this speech (like techniques) and I am struggling so bad :( I would greatly appreciate any help THANK YOU SO MUCH

Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen.

I remember vividly the large face of a foreigner, a Western man, illustrated in rich colours, dominating the whole page of my book. Behind this looming face, to one side, was smoke and dust from an explosion. On the other side, rising from the explosion, white birds climbing to the sky. I was five years old, lying on my front on a traditional Japanese tatami floor. Perhaps this moment left an impression because my mother’s voice, somewhere behind me, was filled with a special emotion as she told the story about a man who’d invented dynamite, then concerned about its applications, had created the Nobel Sho – I first heard of it by its Japanese name. The Nobel Sho, she said, was to promote heiwa – meaning peace or harmony. This was just fourteen years after our city, Nagasaki, had been devastated by the atomic bomb, and young as I was, I knew heiwa was something important; that without it fearful things might invade my world.

The Nobel Prize, like many great ideas, is a simple one – something a child can grasp – and that is perhaps why it continues to have such a powerful hold on the world’s imagination. The pride we feel when someone from our nation wins a Nobel Prize is different from the one we feel witnessing one of our athletes winning an Olympic medal. We don’t feel the pride of our tribe demonstrating superiority over other tribes. Rather, it’s the pride that comes from knowing that one of us has made a significant contribution to our common human endeavour. The emotion aroused is a larger one, a unifying one.

We live today in a time of growing tribal enmities, of communities fracturing into bitterly opposed groups. Like literature, my own field, the Nobel Prize is an idea that, in times like these, helps us to think beyond our dividing walls, that reminds us of what we must struggle for together as human beings. It’s the sort of idea mothers will tell their small children, as they always have, all around the world, to inspire them and to give themselves hope. Am I happy to receive this honour? Yes, I am. I am happy to receive the Nobel Sho, as I instinctively called it when, minutes after receiving my astounding news I telephoned my mother, now 91 years old. I more or less grasped its meaning back then in Nagasaki, and I believe I do so now. I stand here awed that I’ve been allowed to become part of its story. Thank you.
 

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This is not a great text for analysis!! I'm struggling with finding good techniques for your essay! ahhhh :(

I remember vividly the large face of a foreigner
1. Anecdote: the use of a personal story to illustrate a point (being peace and harmony) --> this technique enhances the speech's appeals to pathos (emotional persuasion in the listener)

Behind this looming face, to one side, was smoke and dust from an explosion. On the other side, rising from the explosion, white birds climbing to the sky.
2. Vivid imagery continues appeals to pathos

a simple one – something a child can grasp –
3. Pause?? Punctuation?? (You get what I mean) --> creates emphasis on the simplicity of peace

one of us
4. Italised "us" --> emphasising harmony

Am I happy to receive this honour? Yes, I am.
5. Hypophora: a question followed by an answer

minutes after receiving my astounding news I telephoned my mother, now 91 years old.
6. (not really a technique, this simply focuses on form because I've run out of analysis) Circularity in the structure of the speech and a reference to her mother

hope this helps!
 

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This is not a great text for analysis!! I'm struggling with finding good techniques for your essay! ahhhh :(


1. Anecdote: the use of a personal story to illustrate a point (being peace and harmony) --> this technique enhances the speech's appeals to pathos (emotional persuasion in the listener)


2. Vivid imagery continues appeals to pathos


3. Pause?? Punctuation?? (You get what I mean) --> creates emphasis on the simplicity of peace


4. Italised "us" --> emphasising harmony


5. Hypophora: a question followed by an answer


6. (not really a technique, this simply focuses on form because I've run out of analysis) Circularity in the structure of the speech and a reference to her mother

hope this helps!
Thank you so much!! This will help with my assessment a lot :)
 

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