Style of language

The language used in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech “This is an illegal war” is mainly neutral. Schwarzenegger is not overly informal in his speech, but he includes terms such as “de-Nazify” and generally uses easy-to-understand language. 

When it comes to sentence structure, Schwarzenegger uses medium-length and long sentences when he tells his personal story about his friend Yury: 

He didn’t like Russians because of his experience in the Second World War, when he was injured in Leningrad. (The Nazi army that he was part of did vicious harm to that great city and to its brave people.) My father told me to take Petrovich’s picture down, and to find a German or Austrian hero. 

The longer sentence length helps to draw the audience into his story while he recounts d...