JFK INAUGURAL ADDRESS

INAUGURAL ADDRESS

• JFK's purpose for this speech was to announce his plans for the future and accept his role as president
• He was targeting this speech to all U.S. Citizens

INAUGURAL ADDRESS

JFK wanted to celebrate our new generations and all of the great things to come.

DURING THE TIME pERIOD...

• Blacks tested the Supreme Court by riding racially integrated interstate buses
• The first US man was launched into space.
• The Vietnam War Began

RHETORICAL DEVICES

• "Let both sides"~Repetition
• "Now the trumpet summons us again"~Personification
• "And the glow from that fire can truly light the world"~Personification

PATHOS, LOGOS, ETHOS

• Pathos~"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"
• Logos~"The world is very different now"
• Ethos~There were no examples

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