Unit 5 Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R.

Unit 5

Speech on Hitler's Invasion of

the U.S.S.R

Teaching Objectives

Learn background information Understand the writing style of the spe

ech Get to know rhetorical devices

Teaching Points

I. Background informationII. Structural analysis III. Detailed study of the textIV. Rhetorical devices

I. Background Information

World War II: (1937 / 1939 -1945) The conflict resulted from the rise of totalitarian, fascism in

German, Japan and Italy July 7. 1937 Japan invaded Central China. Sep. 1938 Munich Pact, which sacrificed much of Czechoslovakia to German

y Aug. 1939 Russia-Germany non-aggression pact Sept. 1, 1939 German invasion of Poland Sept. 3, 1939 France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially beginning

World War II

Background Information

June 22, 1940France surrendered. Aug-Oct. 1940The Battle of Britain (2,300 to 900)Jun 22. 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.

I. Background Information

Dec. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbour Sept. 1943 the Allies conquered Sicily and South Italy. Italy

surrendered. May 7. 1945 Germany surrendered unconditionally. Aug. 14, 1945 Japan announced its surrender.


Adolph Hitler, (1889 - 1945) founder and leader of the National Socialist German Workers‘ Party, was born an Austrian.

1920 the Nazi Party1933 Chancellor


1934the union of the presidency and

chancellorship in Hitler's person, the FührerTHE THIRD REICH


1944 an assassination attempt April 29, 1945married his long-time mistress, Eva

BraunApril 30, 1945committed suicide


MEIN KAMPT - My StruggleAryan's SuperiorityNazi: National sozialistthe National Socialist German

Workers' PartyElite Corps, black guards党卫军、黑衫党


CHURCHILL Sir Winston Leonard

Spencer Churchill (Nov. 30, 1874 - Jan. 24, 1965)

May 1940 - May 1945 first tenure as P.M.

Oct. 1951 - Jan. 1955 second tenure as P.M.


1953 knighted

Sir Winston Churchill

1953 the Nobel Prize in Literature

1955 refusing the title of duke

II. Structural analysis

Part I: a piece of narrationBackground of the speechPart II. the speech properan argument or persuasionSection 1: The Nazi regime… horrors

upon mankind…Scenario on both sides of the border. To arouse emotion.


Section 2: I have to declare the…in determination and in resources.

What we should do.Section 3: This is no time…life and power

remain.Further persuasion, to convince the audience

of the justification of the decision.


Type of literature-- a piece of argumentation The purpose of a piece of argumentation: -- to persuade, that is, to defend what is true a

nd to attack what is false by the use of reason Ways of developing a piece of argumentation: --

by deduction -- by induction

III. Detailed Study of the Text

conviction: a very firm and sincere belief

Conviction usu. implies previous doubt or uncertainty.

I speak in the full conviction that our cause is just.

His political convictions are radical.


certainty: the state of being definite or having no doubts

(here in the text) clearly established fact

It's a certainty that this horse will win in the race.

After three days, our victory became a certainty.


surprise: attack suddenly and without warningThey surprised the enemy from the rear.

ground: (of pilot or plane) to stay on the groundThe ship grounded on a hidden sandbank in the

shallow water.grounded on the airfield: lying still on the airfield


round up: to gather together scattered

animals, to collect together animals

that are scattered

A cowboy / dog rounds up the cattle /

sheep.


horde: a large number or crowd, throng

a horde of locustsWhen a contemptuous term is

desired, it is preferred to crowd and throng, esp, when implying rude, rough or savage character.

Detailed Study of the Text

be true of: be the same case, be suitable to

What he says of women is true of men.

People in cities have larger houses now, and the same is true of the living condition in the countryside.


revert to: to go back to a former subject, talk about again

The pressure made him revert to his old habit of smoking.

Shall we revert to our previous topic?arch: principal, chief arch- angel, bishop, criminal, enemy,

rebel, rival, etc.


not bowing down in the House of Rimmon:

Q: You are not doing sth. against your own beliefs, are you?

A: No, not at all.


Rimmon:a deity worshipped by Syrians of Damascus.

Syrian Captain Naaman had leprosy.His Israeli servant told Elisha, a prophet

God.Elisha told Naaman to wash in the

Jordan River 7 times and thus he was cured.


The Nazi regime is extremely cruel. It has invaded other countries in the most savage way. The invasions are so effective that they surpass all other kind of human cruelty.

The Nazi regime is very effective in cruel suppression of and savage attack on other countries, in this respect it is worse than any other known form of evil.


means of existence: (Here) food and clothing to keep people alive, things for people to survive

wring (wrung): to press hard on, squeeze, to twist, to get by force

to wring water from the wet clothes

His sad story wrung our hearts.

IV. Rhetorical devices

Simile: a comparison between two unlike things having at least one quality or characteristic in common.

tenor: the subject of the comparison Vehicle: the image of which this idea is conveyed The vehicle is almost always introduced by the word "like" or

"as".


The bus (tenor) went as slowly similarity as a snail (vehicle).

The water lay grey and wrinkled like an elephant's skin.

Her eyes were jet black, and her hair was like a waterfall.


Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things, but the comparison is implied rather than stated. Contrary to a simile in which the resemblance between two unlike things is clearly stated, in a metaphor nothing is mentioned.

The essential form of a metaphor is X is Y, and all forms of metaphor can be condensed into this form.

IV.Rhetorical devices

Snow clothes the ground. Snow (X---tenor) is clothe (Y---vehicle). Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing,

were moving jewels. Boy (X---tenor) is jewel (Y---vehicle) . The ship ploughed the sea. Ship (X --- tenor) is plough (Y ---vehicle)


Metaphor:They will be rounded up in hordes.I see Russian soldiers standing on

the threshold...Means of existence is wrung from the

soil...


Metaphor:cataract of horrorsrid the earth of his shadow...liberate

people from his yokeThe scene will be clear for the final

act.


Alliteration:dull, drilled, docile...for his hearth and homewith its clanking, heel-clicking...


Assonance: the use of the same or related, vowel sounds in successive words

clanking, heel-clicking,… cowing and tying ...plodding on like crawling

locusts, ...smarting from many a British whipping... easier and safer prey


Repetition: We have but one aim and one single purpose nothing will turn us---nothing We will never parley, we will never negotiate... This is our policy and this is our declaration as we shall faithfully and steadfastly


Parallelism: The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies... I see,...I see... the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector


We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the airAny man or state... Any man or state...Let us... Let us...


Noun phrases: I had not the slightest doubt where ... With great rapidity and violence Periodic sentences: When I awoke on...invasion of Russia. If Hitler imagines that... woefully mistaken.

Unit 5 Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R.

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