Jfk Speech Figurative Language

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The late President John F. Kennedy gave a well-meaning speech on September 12, 1962, at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas, in support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program. Kennedy would amplify his message through the illustration of humanity's achievements, inspiring use of wording, idealistic imagery, and encouraging figurative language, to accomplish the goal of pushing people to stand in support of the race to the moon. Starting off the speech, Kennedy lists multiple examples illustrating the leaps of mankind's marks in history. He goes on to speak on the simple beginnings of man through building, hunting, and basic tools to survive as a species. At first not seeming noteworthy in the grand scheme of things; yet, he quickly leads to the monumental accomplishments of future technology such as electricity and automobiles. Demonstrating how remarkable people have been from their humble beginnings to recent bounds in inventions, which allows the audience to realize the staggering amount of steps that were taken to solidify the present with space only being another to take. …show more content…

Shown throughout the text, Kennedy makes bold remarks on the true potential the country has to succeed in the harsh, but possible outer workings of space. Capturing moments of futuristic ideals, from being a necessary adventure outside of our world to eventually passing Venus itself. This initiates a strong sense of belief by the audience to be able to comprehend and pass through all the impossibilities of space, and instead have full confidence that not only will humanity conquer the trial, but also that their own country and people will be the ones to do

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