Rhetorical Analysis Of Kennedy's Speech

The speech, by Kennedy, claims the importance of the human rights and why citizens elect him as a president. He employs repetition, parallelism and alliteration to make his speech powerful and strike a chord with citizens.
“We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.”In this sentence, JFK repeats the word “beyond doubt”. He uses repetition to emphasis the meaning of this sentence and also makes this sentence more powerful, leaves readers a deep impression. So why does Kennedy resort to evidence and authority, and does is matter? At the fist glance, obviously evidence has power to provided reader with relative context and background information. In this way, it is much easier for readers to understand the topic and statement. However, it cannot be denied that the second more important function of evidence is to make the article more convincing. When Kennedy employs rhetorical devices it is likely to protect his statement from attacks of different attitudes. When he faces some critics and skepticism, evidence is able to rebut these dubious voices and thus

enhance the author’s thesis statement.
“Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out” and in the beginning of the paragraph 7 to paragraph 12, face to the different objects, he uses parallelism to tell people his powerful promise which is methodical and reasonable.

In the fourth paragraph, “born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.”, he also uses parallelism to make his speech motivation and easily appeal audience’s

emotion.
In the beginning, Kennedy tells the audience the meaning of this speech. In the paragraph 2 to paragraph 4 he mentions human right and liberty, and he gradually transmit to what they will do when face different objects. In the next three stanzas, he analyze the reason that why people do not fight all the time and encourage citizens do not afraid negotiate with the rival states. During paragraph 15 to paragraph 18, Kennedy mentions some details about what they should do in order to give citizens a clear direction of his policy. And in the end of the speech, his uses large amount dictions to appeal audience’s emotion, make them full of confidence.
Kennedy’s speech is soul-stirring and make the audience full of power, and he uses plenty of rhetorical devices and accurate word choice. In the last paragraph, he claims that this speech do not only face the American citizens but also face all of the world which sublimate his thesis statement.