Rhetorical Analysis On Eric Whitacre

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The speaker was Eric Whitacre. In March of 2011 he presented a speech named A Virtual Choir 200,000 voices strong.His speech was about what he did.He conducted peices and made a virtual choir. Throughout this speech Eric Whitacre used his his experience and knowledge to show us how he began an online choir.
The audience is really to the general public almost as if he were writing in a newspaper. HIs purpose was to inform people of his accomplishments.His objective was to show the audience how proud of this project he was and how it came about. He claims that his younger self wouldn't believe he’s here today. He claimed college changed his life. He later claimed that this virtual choir is his greatest life achievement.
He uses ethos wisely, he adds that he couldn't read music until he was in college and how he had a dream of becoming a rockstar. This is used as common ground because most people don’t know how to read music ,and a lot of kids have the dream. This idea came to hm after a video was sent in of Britlin Losee singing “Sleep”.He went to Chorus in college. He notes that he wrote on his blog OMG!- Which he uses as common ground because people in this day and age use OMG frequently. After his speech was over he still had manners he showed that by saying Thank you to …show more content…

He starts with a hyperbole and says “and so I figured for Mexico And babes, I could do just about anything” This appeals to be Pathos feelings because it’s funny. He later uses an analogy “ In my entire life, I had seen in black and white and suddenly everything was in technicolor.” This shows the audience how much of an epiphany being in choir was for him and how much it changed his life. The only other one that Eric Whitacre used throughout his speech was a metaphor in which he states “He scrubbed the audio” Informing the audience of the amount of work they had

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