The Presidential inaugural address has been a crucial piece of the new president’s transition into office. This is the first time that the new president can tell American citizens their official plan to lead the country and how they will put that plan into action. There has never been a speech that was not extremely powerful and memorable, and John F. Kennedy’s is no exception. Through the use of rhetoric, he was able to clearly describe his plan of cooperation, peace, and camaraderie to the nation. Kennedy’s large uses of antithesis parallelism, as well as sentence structure are the backbones to the success of his speech. Kennedy utilizes parallelism in order to convey his points in a successful manner throughout his speech. In several …show more content…
He uses it in not only a literal comparison, but also metaphorically. Antithesis assists in how his inauguration “symbolized an end as well as a beginning” as well as “signified renewal as well as change”. Kennedy spotlights his main focus of his argument by using words that would typically contrast each other. One of Kennedy’s hopes is to change the world from the way it used to be by making everyone more cooperative. Kennedy believes that by being elected into office he has started the rebirth of the world, and through this he will be able to change it with the help of the American citizens. By using rhetoric, this speech becomes much more effective,a s ell as interesting because Kennedy does not have to blurt out what his main idea is right away. Antithesis also assists in furthering Kennedy’s belief only people can change the world, as opposed to the countries. One of Kennedy’s main philosophies is that the American people should “ask not what America will do for [them], but what together we can do for the freedom of man”, and by following this philosophy, we the people can make the world a better place. Though he relies less on metaphors and is more straightforward, he still captures the attention of his audience by using power words such as