AP Essay over Queen Elizabeth
...art and stomach of a king, and a king of England too,” which helped provoke excitement in the hearts of her army, as they could feel they were serving a stronger and much more masculine figurehead on the throne. With mentions of both rewards and royalty on the throne, she helped amplify the hearts of her units and raised them to her royal level before combat. Queen Elizabeth continued her heartfelt speech with diction, a resource of language she used to mainly relate herself to the people in several different ways. Elizabeth opened her speech with, “My loving people,” a quote that clearly grabbed their attention as if she was willing to show her immediate affection for each and every one of them, likely she hoped that they would return the same affection. Several other places she lowered herself to say that she too would fight with them and stand by them, simply letting them know she was one of them as well, “I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general and judge.” Another very prominent word throughout her speech is the word “God.” She helped relate herself in the aspect that they are all bound beneath the same and only deity, “for my God… and my blood,” and “under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.” She also stated, “we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God.” Through her use of the one deity’s presence in everyone’s lives equally, she created a connection that both her Protestant and Ca...