Rhetorical devices
Rhetorical devices are techniques which are meant to make a speech more appealing to the audience through language tricks. Such devices are usually used to captivate the audience and make the speaker’s ideas more attractive. The most used rhetorical devices in Cook’s Chicken Tikka Masala speech are allusions, repetitions, and enumerations. The speech is also enhanced by the use of direct address, humour, and metap…
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Allusion
An allusion is a direct reference to another person, a historical event, a text, or another piece of media. Robin Cook uses historical allusions extensively in his speech in the section dedicated to demonstrating that Britain was never a pure-race society: “London was first established as the capital of a Celtic Brita…
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Antithesis
The speaker relies on antithesis a few times, to outline contrasts between different perspectives on multiculturalism or British identity, in…
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Enumeration
In the speech, you will also notice a couple of short enumerations of positive aspects of foreign relations and immigrants which help suggest that there are multiple advan…
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Humour and metaphors
Humour is noticeable when the speaker mentions the British being upset by the fact that immigrants do not support the England cricket team. The reference is humorous given the context, and is meant to minimise the id…
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Repetition
Repetition is used several times in the speech for the purpose of emphasising certain ideas. For example, the speaker uses the possessive pronoun “our” very frequently i…