Read the excerpt from Prime Minister Winston Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" speech, delivered to the United Kingdom’s House of
Commons in 1940. During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. Everything miscarried. And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken. The rhetorical technique used in this excerpt is
Based on the information given, the rhetorical technique used is shift. It should be noted that a rhetorical shift occurs when the tone or the style of a speakers or a writer is being altered. A rhetorical shift is a can be signalled when transition words such as however, then, or but are used.
