Florence Kelley wrote and delivered this speech on the basis of child labor. Her purpose was to inform listeners of the labor laws in states for children and to persuade them to help fight to change these laws. The attitude towards the subject, child labor laws, is a sense of seriousness. The attitude displa the audience is a cry for help, or desperation. Kelley used a very serious tone, so the audience uld really understand the urgentness of this issue. This diction, that proves her seriousness, is displayed throughout the essay but particularly in stages twenty-three through fifty-five. The intended audience, as stated in the excerpt before Kelley’s speech, is people at the convention of National American Women Suffrage Association. The feeling evoked by this speech is utmost sympathy for the children who are part of child labor. Florence Kelley uses rhetorical strategies to further her argument, including: irony, tricolons, anaphora, and analogy.
Florence Kelley uses irony …show more content…
As seen in lines thirty-two through thirty-four and lines seventy-five through seventy-seven. The purpose of using tricolons are to create dramatic sentences. The effect of stopping, pausing, then continuing is stronger than not doing that, or rambling. The effect of tricolons on the audience was the dramaticism of valuable sentences to Kelley’s argument. Kelley effectively uses tricolons in her argument.
The third rhetorical strategy used by Kelley is anaphora. In multiple paragraphs, Kelley states, “In...In...In…,” then gives the state and their child law policy. This repetition creates a dramatic start that the audience is expecting. Kelley uses this method to her advantage. She takes one state, gives their child laws, then gives another state and their child laws then goes into deeper explanation. Anaphoras are a powerful addition to writing and speech if used correctly Kelley correctly used anaphoras to further her