Kevin Rudd's Emotive Language

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Emotive language, metaphors and power of three have been used in Kevin Rudd’s apology speech to shape the central subject of mistreatment. This apology speech was the first one of its kind, because Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia in 2008, was the first personnel that actually apologized for the abuse inflicted on the Indigenous people of the land.
Emotive language has been employed in the speech to present the key subject of mistreatment. Mistreatment has been through the various numbers of uses of emotive language. To exemplify, at the exposition the spokesperson addresses the different members of the family. This is observed in the direct speech when he says “to the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the

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