Answer:
President Roosevelt’s Speech Japanese Declaration of War
main idea to persuade Congress to declare war on Japan and rally the people of America to inform the people of Japan about the decision to go to war and the evidence that compelled this decision
tone confident, passionate, patriotic motivational, aggravated
examples of effective
or strong vocabulary infamy, deliberately, useless, deceive, endanger, hostilities, unprovoked, hostilities, unprovoked prosecuting, friendship, unavoidable, compelled, fratricidal opposition, inordinate ambition, submission, endanger, nullify, preserving
persuasion technique (ethos, logos, pathos)
Ethos
President of the United States, serving his third term
Logos
“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people . . . are in grave danger.” These sentences provide a logical reason to go to war. Other facts included are dates and lists of other countries attacked.
Pathos
Words such as deliberate, guilty, and infamy provoke an emotional response from Americans.
Ethos
references to emperors and imperial ancestors; has the “Grand seal of the Empire”
Logos
After Hirohito the imminent dangers Britain and the United States pose, he states Japan “has no other recourse but to appeal to arms.”
Pathos
Hirohito uses words such as friendship, prosperity, neighborly, or peaceful to describe Japan. On the other hand, he refers to America and Britain as “sources of evil” to provoke an emotional response against these countries.
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