Segment 1 Exam Analyzing Kennedy S Inaugural Speech
Analyzing “Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech, 1961”
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What effect does Kennedy hope to have on his audience through his speech?
What is a possible theme from the speech?
What is Kennedy’s tone?
Read Kennedy’s speech and break down the paragraphs:
Example: …In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
Example:
Give a summary of the paragraph and identify a figure of speech (hyperbole, metaphor, allusion, etc.) Kennedy is using:
It’s in the hands of the people of the United States to see if the US will be successful or not.
He is using a hyperbole to describe the number of Americans who have died defending our country.
Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
Give a summary of the paragraph and identify a figure of speech (hyperbole, metaphor, allusion, etc.) Kennedy is using:
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve
This text will be featured on the final exam
What effect does Kennedy hope to have on his audience through his speech?
What is a possible theme from the speech?
What is Kennedy’s tone?
Read Kennedy’s speech and break down the paragraphs:
Example: …In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
Example:
Give a summary of the paragraph and identify a figure of speech (hyperbole, metaphor, allusion, etc.) Kennedy is using:
It’s in the hands of the people of the United States to see if the US will be successful or not.
He is using a hyperbole to describe the number of Americans who have died defending our country.
Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
Give a summary of the paragraph and identify a figure of speech (hyperbole, metaphor, allusion, etc.) Kennedy is using:
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve