Abstract As a new president’s inaugural speech, its purpose is to show its political stance, to inspire and win support of audiences。 Presidential inaugural address has a sharp and obvious point, refined language and the power of persuasion, making people inspiring and encouraging。 Rhetoric in the inaugural speech of the President of the United States plays an extremely important role, which is a key to influencing the success or failure of the inaugural address。 In this paper, from the perspective of linguistics, rhetoric in English can be pided into three categories: lexical stylistic devices, syntactical stylistic devices and phonetic stylistic devices, including simile, metaphor, parallelism, antithesis, allusion, alliteration, and so on。 Based on the analysis of Obama’s second inaugural address, this thesis has provided deep-seated penetration into inaugural address by dint of rhetoric devices。 In addition, it has also reflected the rhetoric devices vividly and interestingly, and make readers have more deeply understanding of the presidential inauguration。75661

Key words: second inaugural address; rhetoric devices; metaphor 

摘要每任新总统上任都要进行就职演说，目的就是表明自己的政治态度、立场，鼓舞并赢得观众的支持。总统就职演说以其显著的观点、精炼的语言和强大的雄辩力让人精神振奋。在美国总统的就职演说中，成败的关键之处就在此。本文从语言学角度，将英语中的修辞分为三类：词汇修辞格、句法修辞格以及语音修辞格，包括明喻、暗喻、排比、对偶、典故、头韵等等。本文以奥巴马在第二任就职演说的精彩演讲为例，来体现修辞的生动和有趣，让读者运用修辞手法更深层次地理解总统就职演说。

毕业论文关键词：第二任就职演说；修辞；暗喻

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 1

2。1 Text Characteristic in English Speech 1

2。2 Rhetoric in English Political Speech 2

2。3 Previous Studies about Rhetoric 2

3。 The Introduction of Rhetoric and Inaugural Address 3

3。1 The Introduction of Rhetoric 3

3。2 An Introduction of Inaugural Address 5

4。 The Analysis of Rhetoric in Obama’s Second Inaugural Address 6

4。1 Lexical Stylistic Devices 7

4。2 Phonetic Stylistic Devices 9

4。3 Syntactical Stylistic Devices 10

5。 Conclusion 12

Works Cited。。。。13

1。 Introduction

     Speech is a long history of social activities 4500 years ago。 Today, in this inaugural speech, it has quite high value of polity and literature。 The address is meant to explain, persuasive public to accept his standpoint and give strong backing to him。 So the president can express his own charm, confidence, wisdom and leadership of presidents as much as possible。 At the same time, Obama use the rhetoric in his speech。 As we all know, the rhetoric can make the speech more concrete, vivid, easy and so on, it also can make the speech more impressive, powerful and persuasive。 But what is the importance is that it can arouse audience’s interest and win the people’s support。 论文网

     Therefore, in this paper, it will discuss the lexical stylistic devices, phonetic stylistic devices, syntactical stylistic devices and inaugural address。 And the rhetoric in the Obama’s speech will also be discussed which is an important part。