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The Meaning Of A Speech : A Work Of Speech

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Although some may think the speech is effective because of the tone and delivery, rhetorical scholars will explain how key vocabulary elements actually make the speech as effective as it is. This speech is a work of art in its own right, the screenwriters crafted this speech with the intent to elicit a response from the audience.
By applying the method of cluster criticism we can see how the intensity and frequency of certain words change the entire meaning of a speech and changes the audience’s reaction to the scene. By choosing the terms, ‘Marshall’, ‘six’, and ‘today’ as our key terms to analyze we can illustrate how intensity and frequency impacts the rhetoric of this piece of art.
Key Term: Marshall.
The first key term we believe to be important is Marshall. At the end of Jack Lengyel’s speech he includes the famous line “We are...Marshall, We are...Marshall, We are...Marshall!” to be echoed by the entire team. The word Marshall only appears those three times in the entire artifact. Although the term is only blatantly stated three times, the cluster analysis suggests that the terms surrounding Marshall have an impact on its message. As the artifact is studied, the word Marshall is surrounded by the terms we, ashes, glory and play. Each of these terms influence the weight of the term Marshall, and its relationship to the over all speech. The terms we implies Marshall, but if the context of the speech is unknown, it could be addressing any group of men. In addition, we

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