Examples Of Parallelism In Jfk Speech

The president John F. Kennedy had a famous speech which is about the goals and the attitude to the enemies and friends after he became the president. Kennedy’s purpose is to let people have the confidence in him. He used parallelism and clever word choice to create an influential tone to encourage the Americans to accept his opinions.
In the first paragraph, Kennedy used a lot of parallelism to strengthen the grand momentum and the tone. Parallelism means that using the several identical types or forms of sentences or words to describe and speak. For example, “a victory of party and a celebration of freedom; an end and a beginning.” The writer used these parallel words to make his opinion more clear and impressive. For his audiences, Kennedy’s parallelism made them easily convince him and understand him better. In addition, in the next several paragraph, Kennedy started writing the paragraph with the same sentences styles. For instance, “Let both sides explore what problem unites us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and …show more content…
Kennedy wanted to contrast the civilians and the power of hope to show the difference to the past, and then to show his audiences the power and importance of religion. As a result, the word “mortal” helped Kennedy to distinguish the two substances he wanted to compare clearly and highlight the inconformity of them and his audiences would have a better understanding of what Kennedy was talking about. In addition, Kennedy’s diction about “we” and “our” is also really useful to give his audiences a feeling that the president is kind and they are in a team compared to “you” or “your”. These dictions maybe just some little details but they are really important for Kennedy to complete his speech and to make his speech easy to persuade his