Strong emotion is evoked when Kennedy suggests that a metaphorical “…trumpet summons (them)…” to “bear the burden of a long twilight struggle” (Kennedy 220). Kennedy is comparing a trumpet to his listeners’ hearts. Meaning our hearts are summoning us to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle. He is comparing a ling twilight struggle to bring to the fore front the many years America has struggled to be a great country. Kennedy uses the words ‘burden’ and ‘bear’ and ‘struggle’ get into our emotional side so America realizes what our country really has been going thorugh and to prove that the time is now to bear the long struggle America has been in order to improve it. He utilizes diction to asses a call to action amongst his listeners through the use of words such as eradicate, explore, conquer, tap, and encourage. His emotional appeal correlates with his use of dicition because he does so to get his listeners to better understand his goals and ambitions as a
Strong emotion is evoked when Kennedy suggests that a metaphorical “…trumpet summons (them)…” to “bear the burden of a long twilight struggle” (Kennedy 220). Kennedy is comparing a trumpet to his listeners’ hearts. Meaning our hearts are summoning us to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle. He is comparing a ling twilight struggle to bring to the fore front the many years America has struggled to be a great country. Kennedy uses the words ‘burden’ and ‘bear’ and ‘struggle’ get into our emotional side so America realizes what our country really has been going thorugh and to prove that the time is now to bear the long struggle America has been in order to improve it. He utilizes diction to asses a call to action amongst his listeners through the use of words such as eradicate, explore, conquer, tap, and encourage. His emotional appeal correlates with his use of dicition because he does so to get his listeners to better understand his goals and ambitions as a