Language Manipulation in Political Campaigns.

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How is language being used to change the aspect of an intended audience?

In the article, “ Hillary Clinton’s concession speech for the 2016 presidential speech election,” published by Katie Reilly, she interviews and reports Tim Kaine’s opinion about Clinton’s speech, is being delivered in the convention center of New York City. In regards to Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the presidential election, her supporters were in awe about the outcome in her presidential campaign loss. In which apparently Reilly, intends to persuade by her use of informative language, and interviewing a republican, which maintains a very empowering feminist perspective. Its main purpose of Reilly’s article is to inform and persuade by the diction that is being used in one of Clinton’s political campaigns.

Throughout the beginning of Reilly’s article, she explains the way “This is painful and it will be for a long time,” …show more content…

It is an amazing accomplishment. I’m proud of Hillary Clinton because, in the words of Langston Hughes, she’s “held fast to dreams.” As Reilly, uses parallelism, throughout her article, in order to portray someone's perspective in the society which is being silenced due to their gender. As she says, “ amazing accomplishment,” it is being repeated because most women are amazed that women like Hillary, made a huge accomplishment, portraying that women are leaders.No other women, like her have taken the risk of facing anti-feminist, who will do anything to bring her down. Although the language in Hillary Clinton’s speeches is very strong and convincing, her gender has caused her the prevention of taking a leadership role. Not only that, but she also intends to include an allusion to Langston Hughes, in which in the political world allusions are used help show their understanding to persuade others that made an impact in

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