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3.And let every otherpowerknow that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.(Para 9)
4.And, if abeachheadof cooperation may push back thejungleof suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor……(Para 19)
6.Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here thesamehighstandardsofstrengthandsacrificewhich we ask of you.(Para 27)
3.Letall our neighborsknow thatwe shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. Andletevery other powerknow thatthis hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.(Para 9)
2.And so, my fellow Americans,ask not whatyour country can do for you;ask whatyou can do for your country.(Para 25)
My fellow citizens of the world,ask not whatAmericaห้องสมุดไป่ตู้will do for you,but whattogether we can do for the freedom of man. (Para 26)
4.To that worldassembly of sovereign states, theUnited Nations, our last besthope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support --toprevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective,tostrengthen its shield of the new and the weak, andtoenlarge the area in which its writ may run.(Para 10)
Rhetorical Analysis of Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
Alliterate
押头韵
1. We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom --symbolizingan end, as well as a beginning --signifyingrenewal, as well as change.(Para 1)
首词重复
1.Solet usbegin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.Let usnever negotiate out of fear, butlet usnever fear to negotiate.(Para14)
Hyperbole
夸张
1.In the long history of the world, only a fewgenerations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour ofmaximum danger.(Para 24)
Allusion
典故
1.All this will not be finished in the firstone hundred days.(Para 20)
Climax
层进
1.All this willnotbe finished in the first one hundred days.Norwill it be finished in the first one thousand days;norin the life of this Administration;noreven perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.Butlet us begin.(Para 20)
5.Now the trumpet summons us again --not as a callto bear arms, though arms we need --not as a calltobattle, though embattled we are --but a callto 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.(Para 22)
Antithesis
对仗
1. We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom -- symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning -- signifyingrenewal,as well aschange.(Para 1)
Metaphor
暗喻
1.……that thetorchhas been passed to a new generation of Americans……(Para 3)
2.But we shall always hope to find them stronglysupporting their own freedom -- and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of thetigerended up inside.(Para 7)
Synecdoche
提喻
1.……-- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadlyatom, yet both racing to alter that uncertainbalance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.(Para 13)
2.Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shallpayany price,bearany burden,meetany hardship,supportany friend,opposeany foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.(Para 4)
2.……let both sides join in creatinga newendeavor --nota newbalance of power, buta newworld of law -- where the strong are just, and the weak secure, and the peace preserved.(Para 19)
2.Let the word go forth from this time and place, tofriendandfoealike……(Para 3)
3.To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds ofmass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves……(Para 8)
5.he energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor willlightour country and all who serve it. And the glow from thatfirecan truly light the world.(Para 24)
2.In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in itshourof maximum danger.(Para 24)
Anaphora
4.Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious andprecise proposalsfor the inspection and control of arms……(Para 16)