Rhetorical Analysis of JFK's Inaugural Speech

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president in USA, gave the speech to all Americans when he became the president. On January 20th, 1961, Kennedy gave the attention to the international affairs, appeal the American to undertake more duty, and make more sacrifices in his speech. His Inaugural Speech uttering, sentence and paragraph are carefully crafted, of which the biggest feature was a large number of figures of speech using. Rhetoric is the use of language, according to the specific purpose of carefully chosen language process, and strives to make the language clear, vivid and exciting.
First of all, Parallel structure is the most widely used figures in the speech. This is mainly due to the parallel mood structure compact, consistent,

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