Read the excerpt from "Speech to National Council of
Which technique does Rice use in this excerpt to
education is
Negro Women* by Condoleezza Rice.
convince the audience that higher
My grandfather understood something, and so did my
important?
grandmother and my mother's parents, and that is that
higher education, if you can attain it, is transforming.
O imagery to create pathos
You may come
from a poor family, you may come from
O repetition to create pathos
a rural family, you may be first-generation college-
• imagery to create ethos
educated, but once you are college-educated, the
O word choice to create ethos
most important thing about you, in many ways, is that
you're a college graduate and you are transformed.