Brett and Kate McKay come up with outstanding presentation “Appeal of June 18″ by Charles de Gaulle. The appeal is interesting on how it covers various issues that surround France. He succeeds in presenting France as conqueror despite losing to Germany in the past. He uses various techniques to convince the reader on the sensitivity of the issue that surrounded the nation. If France gets another chance, she could perform better against Germany.
The target audience is anyone who would be interested in the history of the relationship of France and Germany. The article is highly attractive to the audience since they can easily identify with the cause of defeat for France by Germany. The recognition of the audience and purpose is crucial in defining the significance of the article. The authors make the article easy to follow for the audience as one can easily connect to the story since it has been presented in a unique way.
Rhetorical devices are also evident in this article and are observable in various instances. The first evidence is through assonance. In the article, the author insists through the vowel sound on the words world-wide war. The vowels make the grief that the nation has clear, and it succeeds in showing the problem as an extremely serious issue for the country, as well as the world. The other evidence that is clear from the article is onomatopoeia. The author says “For France is not alone! She is not alone! She is not alone!” (Brett and Kate 01). The author insists on the support that France fetches from the rest of the world in war against Germany.
The overall structure of the article shows exclusive creativity by the author. He succeeds in making the reader interested on the content. His presentation is unique since he is able to convince the reader using various speech skills. To make the article superbly attractive he had to ensure the article communicates to the reader. He does that by choosing accurate language that will address his issue accordingly. He gives so many details in a simple language making the article easy to read. The article is short and straight to the point. The presentation makes it easy for the people to fetch relevance from the article. It is extremely easy to read through the article more than once following the unique presentation skills by the author. The article is well structured with unique introduction, body, and conclusion. The flow of the article from introduction to the body and at the end to conclusion is proper indication how the structure of an article would influence creative thinking as this one.
Work Cited
McKay, Brett, and Kate McKay. "“Appeal of June 18″ by Charles De Gaulle." The Art of Manliness. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. http://www.artofmanliness.com/appeal-of-june-18-by- charles-de-gaulle/.
