Queen Elizabeth Speech Style Analysis

Queen Elizabeth Speech Style Analysis

This passage was about Queen Elizabeth of England, 1588, made a speech to her troops at Tibury in order to pump them up to fight against an invasion by troop serving the king of Spain. Elizabeth’s use of language and sentences shifts reveals her ability to convince an audience to fight for rewards and historic victory.

Elizabeth’s uses the word “my” throughout the passage to show her strong sense of ownership and to strengthen herself as a leader that will take complete security of her country. Her tone immediately reflects her overall confidence in her credibility as a leader/ruler. It also brings a sense of ownership and strong sense of command and dominance which reinforce her credibility as a ruler.

Also, the fourth sentence reveals Elizabeth’s promise of rewards and crowns were going to be given to the troop. These troops were a majority of poor and uneducated workers and soldiers. This ultimately reveals her use of power and credibility as a queen of England in order to promise these people, who need the money. To have even more reason/motive to fight their best. Therefore, she achieves her goal of motivated troops by using the ethos appeal.

Throughout the passage the word “my”, “myself”, and “I” is repeated multiple times, however, the smooth shift to “you” and “your” reveals Elizabeth’s focus on strengthening her position as a strong and confident leader (my, myself, I”) first, and then using the you and your in order to make her troops realize they themselves will overall bring “a famous victory” and “receive rewards and crowns”. This makes the fight beneficial to her audience personally and to their country, which greatly convinces the troops to fight a lot better due to their overflowing spirit. This was Elizabeth’s overall goal and purpose.

By establishing herself as a dependable, strong, and confident leader, she quickly/smoothly changes her language to focus on her audience’s personal interests....