BIDEN'S JANUARY 6TH ADDRESS by Matt Boyson

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2025-02-06 18:25:08 UTC

Antithesis: with rights come responsibilities

Anaphora: the responsability x3

Metaphor(back to HOPE): get back in the arena and try again

Allusion: we are in the battle for soul of America

Parallelism: once the honor...

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2025-02-06 18:30:38 UTC

Repetition: the party, the party of

Anaphora/ tripling: are we going to...

Antithesis: light/shadow, Truth/ lies (part of a metaphor)

Anaphora/ Tripling: is that what you thought

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2025-02-06 18:33:38 UTC

Parallelism / Allusion: “Our democracy held. We the people endured. We the people prevail.”

Parallelism: “the real history, the real facts, the real truth, the facts and the truth that […]”

Anaphora: “Above him, above us over that door […]”

Repetition: “But they failed. They failed.”

Allusions: “[…] one year ago today […]”, “This is where the House of Representatives met for 50 years in the decades leading up to the Civil War.”

Polysyndeton: “[…] Vice President Harris just shared, and that you and I and the whole world […]”

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2025-02-06 18:34:01 UTC

Metaphor: sowing doubt

Tripling: the same ballot, the same day, cast by the same voters?

Historical allusion: So let's speak plainly about what happened in 2020

Ellipsis: Defeated by a margin of over seven million of your votes

Metaphor: the former president didn't lose those races

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2025-02-06 18:35:51 UTC

Antithesis : They didn’t came here out of patriotism or principle. They came here in rage.
Anaphora : 2nd paragraph "You can’t"
Metaphora : held a dagger at the throat of America
Polysyndeton : 3rd paragraph "and" 3 times
Rethorical question : 1st paragraph

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2025-02-06 18:36:48 UTC

Tripling: It's wrong, it' undemocratic, and frankly, it's un-ameriacn

Antithesis: protect, deny / subvert , supress / applauded, attacked

Anaphora: No election, no election in American history...

Metaphor: Can you think of a more twisted way to look at this country?

Historical allusion: greatest demonstration of democracy in the history of this country

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2025-02-06 18:39:26 UTC

Antithesis: both at home and abroad. democracy and autocracy. between the aspirations of the many and the greed of the few.

Repetition: too slow, too bogged. / they're betting, they're betting. / that changed the world, literally changed the world.

Tripling: for the autocrat, the dictator, the strongman.

Anaphora: That is not who we are. That is not who we have ever been. And that is not who we should ever, ever be. / : The right to vote. The right to govern ourselves. The right to determine our own destiny.

Parallelism: more like them and less like us. / , if you succeed, I fail. If you get ahead, I fall behind. If I hold you down, I somehow lift myself up.

Allusion: Our founding fathers. / Lexington and Concord at Gettysburg and Omaha Beach, Seneca Falls, Selma, Alabama.

2025-02-06 18:40:26 UTC

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miriammerino4 — 2025-02-06 18:40:51 UTC

Biblical allusion: Bible tel us

Repetition: The truth, the truth; anyone, anyone.

Use of “we”, “us”

Anthitesis: Close your eyes. What do you see?

Anaphora: A mob, breaking windows, kicking in doors, breaching the Capitol, American flags on poles being used as weapons as spears, fire extinguishers being thrown at the heads of police officers.

Epistrophe: officers, dragged them, sprayed them, stomped on them.

Use of quotes: “a medieval battle”.

Metaphors: We saw with our own eyes rioters menace these halls; The nation’s capital under siege