Greta Thunberg - Rhetoric

My message is that we'll be watching you.

• personal pronouns

• shock tactics

• hyperbole

• repetition

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

• figurative language

• personal anecdote

• accusatory tone

• shock tactics

People are suffering. People are dying.

• emotive language

• figurative language

• exclamatory tone

• parallelism

How dare you!?

• intensifier

• rhetorical question

• anecdote

• hyperbole

But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice.

• facts and figures

• cause and effect scenario

• shock tactics

• appeal to pathos

I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.

• establish credibility

• appeal to pathos

• appeal to logos

• accusatory tone

We will never forgive you.

• hyperbole

• imagery

• accusatory tone

• personal pronouns

They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.

• facts

• imagery

• tripling/asyndeton

• humour

People are suffering. People are dying.

• dramatic language

• figurative language

• exclamatory tone

• anaphora

People are suffering. People are dying.

• emotive language

• figurative language

• parallelism

• figurative language