This speech calls English nationalists to stand up for their country. It claims England's name and identity have been marginalized, and that nationalists are unfairly labeled as racists or Nazis. The speaker asserts nationalists represent the true voice of the English people and their country has been stolen from them. He calls the nationalists a band of brothers and urges them to take their country back by fighting for it with their last breath.
This speech calls English nationalists to stand up for their country. It claims England's name and identity have been marginalized, and that nationalists are unfairly labeled as racists or Nazis. The speaker asserts nationalists represent the true voice of the English people and their country has been stolen from them. He calls the nationalists a band of brothers and urges them to take their country back by fighting for it with their last breath.
This speech calls English nationalists to stand up for their country. It claims England's name and identity have been marginalized, and that nationalists are unfairly labeled as racists or Nazis. The speaker asserts nationalists represent the true voice of the English people and their country has been stolen from them. He calls the nationalists a band of brothers and urges them to take their country back by fighting for it with their last breath.
No. An almost forbidden word. metanoia epistrophe A word that means more to me than any other. anadiplosis That word is "England". solution anaphora Once, we flaunted it in the face of the world, like a banner. inclusive ‘we’ metaphor simile It was a word that stood for power. A word that stood for freedom. A word that stood for Lexical set – anaphora tricolon respect. flaunt, power, parallelism respect But today, we're scarcely even allowed to speak the name of our country. contrast Well, I want to revive that word, a grand old word, the word "Englishman". diacope tricolon Now we've been marginalised. inclusive ‘we’ We've been called "cranks". We're not cranks. and us refutation parallelism tricolon Some people say we're racists. We're not racists. We're realists. Some people call us Nazis. We're not Nazis. No, what we are, we are nationalists. And there's a reason people try to pigeonhole us like this. puzzle metaphor And that is because of one word, gentlemen. vocative Fear. solution They fear us. They fear us because we are the true voice of the people of this country. People inclusive ‘we’ anaphor who work hard, pay their way, it don't matter what their ethnic background is, I welcome with exclusive open arms in this country. It's the people who think we owe them a living. These are the people ‘people’ that need to go back. An English king on a battlefield once said, "From this day till the end of the world, only we in it quotation appositio alliteration tricolon shall be remembered, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." exclusive ‘we’ anaphor Gentlemen, it is the time to stand up and be counted. It is the time for action. call to action anaphor Our country has been stolen from under our noses. metaphor Well, gentlemen, it's time to take it back! call to action vocative interjection Are you ready to return to the fight? Are you ready to shed blood? Are you ready to fight for 2nd person anaphor tricolon this country with your last breath of life? pronoun Gentlemen, join our band of brothers. imperative vocative alliteration repetition This is England Speech (stimulate emotions, change minds, call to act) lexical sets: flaunted/banner/power/respect/grand/king [] forbidden/(not) allowed/marginalised/called cranks