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Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:50 PM

Published 11/05/2009 by Guardian.co.uk


Gordon Brown's speech: cheap at £4.3K

From alliteration to asyndeton, the PM's rousing address to Congress was a great showcase of the art of speechwriting

My inbox was red hot yesterday following the Guardian's revelation that No 10 for advice on the prime minister's speech to Congress..

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...sense of urgency ( "no hiding place for terrorists, no safe haven for terrorism'); second, there were alliterative pairs, which create a sense of intensity (" sacrifice of service'...
...of finality ( "America is not just the indispensible nation, it is the irrepressible nation'). It was through tricks like these that Brown won 19 standing ovations."

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