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SAT Reading: Identifying the Rhetorical Effect of the Phrase "We, the People" 4 Views


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"We the people..." Obama references his own patriotism, aligning his presidency with that of the legends in the past. Is his underwear red, white, and blue? (He coughs, "commando".)


Transcript

00:02

alright people were still on the Obama inauguration speech 2013 another

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question for you here we go what is that rhetorical effect I'm starting paragraph [text on screen]

00:10

11 with the phrase beautiful let's go back here to line 70 and reread the

00:16

sentence there for we the people understand our country cannot succeed

00:18

when a shrinking few do very well and a growing in the many barely make it well

00:22

the correct answer and it's not a Nazi yeah let's go with D

00:28

yeah that's the right answer okay well we the people is famously

00:31

taken from the preamble to the United States Constitution earlier in the

00:35

speech Obama recites a phrase from the Declaration of Independence by

00:39

referencing these American foundational documents Obama's showing how patriotic

00:43

he is woohoo cuz that's what the president's supposed to be right he's [picture of Obama]

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aligning his message to the sterling patriotic reputations of those documents

00:52

its patriotism by association right like everyone wants to be associated with a [Obama and bolt posing]

00:57

winner well the election was somewhat bitter as many are somewhat Obama isn't

01:01

here to dwell on exactly how the election went however so get rid of a [text on screen]

01:06

he's all about moving forward but he doesn't cite any measures he hopes to

01:09

take in regard to a civility so get rid of C and while many presidents use

01:14

tactics to seem normal and relatable kind of average Joe human beings but

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name-dropping famous historical documents is not exactly one of them the

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answer is D you know with presidents a patriot and a check his underwear there

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it's got red white and blue stripes on it doesn't it [underwear with flag patter hanging to dry]

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