"This is your victory."
During the first opening minutes of Barack Obama's victory speech, he was quick to acknowledge all of those who had voted him; he believed this to be not just his victory but the voter's victory.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
While he talks about these different groups of people who voted for him, he ties them all together by saying,
We are, and always will be, the United States of America
I noticed a pattern in the way Obama spoke, and it was ever few paragraphs reminding the views that it wasn't his victory, it was their victory. He used rhetorical devices to spread this message across, and the most used were inclusion, repetition, anecdotes and a few chiasmus.
I believe this rhetorical devices were used because they reinforce the feeling of reader inclusion, and allow the audience to relate more with Barack Obama. Obama mentions realistic scenarios that many people in American are facing today, and by doing so his is able to form a strong connection with the audience.
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