Rhetorical Analysis Of Florence Kelley's Speech

With a voice of emotion, Florence Kelley reaches out to women who were at that time were without the right to vote and including supporters of the women`s suffrage movement, at the National American Women Suffrage Association, to exhibit this “battle-cry” for the movement. As she speaks “to us”, she addresses what may be done “for us” while we sleep at night with the additional use of “we” a total of 12 times in an effort to make this speech seem not as if she is condemning policy makers. In the process of standing for what is right “for us”, she rather unifies herself as Americans to rectify American social stances in a supplicatory fashion. At the time, her voice would have spread to the many levels of society since she was widely considered a

Ordinarily, colloquialism is used with words such as “breadwinners” and “whatever” to again compensate for the base of society so that she may reach to all intellectual standpoints. As for the tone of the speech, it seems that she uses an optimistic speech in a cautionary tone in order to glorify her argument so that it may promote an ethical justification to her purpose. In her 13th paragraph of her speech, she references many pieces of an outfit as “artificial” and then later lists how children have been forced to abandon all aspects of normal childhood so that these accessories may be made. This would have been spoken to a well to do audience more than likely dressed in proper attire with multiple accessories now associated with child labor. Her hope would be that many in the crowd would analyze themselves and would have felt a sense of guilt and shame with a revelation of how those small trinkets came to be. She dissects the issue through the expository action of listing the status of the states for the reader and their position on the