Rhetorical Devices in a Political Speech Answers

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." These [monetary investments in education] are the foundations from which towers of human achievement can soar.

Which excerpt from "Keynote Address" is an appeal to timeliness?

Which best describes the purpose of the rhetorical questions Kennedy asks in "Among Free Men"?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address."At a time when guns are still heard in some areas of the world, we have laid in place such building blocks of mankind’s survival as the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963, the banning of atomic weapons in space of 1967, and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty of 1968. These are vital foundations, vital foundations of peace, and we must build on them.

How does Kennedy gain authority by quoting Abraham Lincoln at the end of "Among Free Men"?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Unlike those of my ancestry, the Negro’s unemployment rate is triple the national average. The mortality rate of his children is twice that of white children. He often pays more for his miserable tenement than comparable space will cost in the white suburbs. He is likely to pay more for his groceries, more for his furniture, more for his liquor, and more for his credit. And my fellow Americans, today many thousands of black Americans return from Vietnam with medals of valor. Some of them have been crippled in the service of their country. But too often they return to economic and social circumstances that are barely, if at all, improved over those they left. Is it any wonder that the Negro questions whether his place in our country’s history books will be any less forgotten than were the contributions of his ancestors? Is it any wonder that the Negroes find it hard to wait another 100 years before they are accepted as full citizens in our free society?

In which excerpt from "Keynote Address" does Inouye create an appeal to authority?

Read the first paragraph of "Among Free Men." This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.

Read the excerpt from "Among Free Men." Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Let us plant trees and grow new opportunity.