Barack Obama
This is the political party President Obama is a member of.
What is the Democratic Party?
These are the sender and the receiver of the speech.
Who are Barack Obama and students of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.?
Pronouns like 'I', 'me', 'you', 'she', 'her', 'he', 'him', 'we', 'us', 'they' and 'them'.
What are personal pronouns?
The connotations of the following words: "It was an image of Earth - beautiful; breathtaking; a glowing marble of blue oceans, and green forests, and brown mountains brushed with white clouds, rising over the surface of the moon" (page 1).
What are very positive connotations/very positively connoted words?
The capital city where Barack Obama delivers his speech.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This is the name of Barack Obama's wife.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This is the mode of persuasion used in this paragraph: "And while the sight of our planet from space might seem routine today, imagine what it looked like to those of us seeing our home, our planet, for the first time. Imagine what it looked like to children like me. Even the astronauts were amazed" (p. 1).
What is the mode of persuasion of pathos?
Pronouns like 'my', 'mine', 'your', 'yours', 'his', 'her', 'hers', 'our', 'ours', 'their' and 'theirs'.
What are possessive pronouns?
This is how we could translate the following passage into Danish: "On Christmas Eve, 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 did a live broadcast from lunar orbit" (page 1).
What is: "Juleaften 1968 transmitterede/sendte astronauterne ombord på Apollo 8 direkte fra deres kredsløb om Månen"?
Where the astronauts on Apollo 8 went back in 1968.
What is the Moon?
This is the middle name of Barack Obama.
What is Hussein?
This is what is meant by the rhetorical devise of allusion.
What is a figure of explication using a brief or casual reference to a famous person, group, historical event, place, or work of art - as in George Washington, John F. Kennedy, the Book of Genesis or the astronauts of Apollo 8 in Obama's speech?
Pronouns like 'who', 'whom', 'which', 'that' and 'what'.
What are relative pronouns?
This is how we would define the word 'applause' in English according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
What is 'approval publicly expressed as by clapping the hands"?
The female name of the deadliest, most destructive, and strongest hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
What is Sandy?
This is the country that Barack Obama's father came from.
What is Kenya?
This is the rhetorical device of sound that we see in this phrase: "lost lives, and lost livelihoods" (page 2)
What is alliteration?
Pronouns like 'this', 'that', 'these' and 'those'.
What are demonstrative pronouns?
This is what the word 'vehicle' means in Danish.
What is 'køretøj'?
The capital city where the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) was held at the Bella Center between 7 and 18 December.
What is Copenhagen?
These are the names of Barack Obama's two daughters.
What are Malia Ann Obama and Sasha Obama?
This is the level of formality (or style) used by President Obama in his speech on climate change.
What is a level of formality (or style) that is rather high?
Pronouns like 'no-one', 'nobody', 'anyone', 'something', 'one' and 'nothing'.
What are indefinit ('upersonlige') pronouns?
This is the legislature [den lovgivende forsamling] of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral [to kamre], composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate.
What is the United States Congress?
An American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?