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108 Unit 2 ■ Appealing to an Audience

AP ® SKILLS LANGUAGE AND STYLE
PRACTICE Analyzing Syntax
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In this informative and impassioned televised address, George W. Bush
employed strategic syntactical choices to engage the American people toward
a unified call to action. You may use the following graphic organizer as you read
and find examples of the following syntactical techniques and consider the effect
they had on President Bush’s message and on his audience as you answer the
questions after the text.

Analyzing Syntax
Rhetorical Devices Definition Examples and Effect
Repetition Repeating or recurrence of
a word, phrase, sentence,
or other element
Juxtaposition Contrasting ideas, scenes,
settings, images, or other
elements
Parallel Structure Repeating words or
phrases in the same
grammatical structure
Rhetorical Question Posing a question
that is expected to be
considered but not
answered literally
Antithesis Contrasting ideas in
parallel grammatical
structure
Fragment Expressing a broken
thought or only part of a
sentence intentionally
Simple Sentence Expressing a complete
thought consisting of a
subject and verb

Address to the Nation on September 20, 2001
r. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Tempore, needed; it has already been delivered by the
Mmembers of Congress, and fellow Amer- American people.
icans, in the normal course of events, presi- We have seen it in the courage of passen-
dents come to this chamber to report on the gers who rushed terrorists to save others on
state of the union. Tonight, no such report is the ground. Passengers like an exceptional

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