35th president John F. Kennedy was sworn in January 20, 1961. In this inaugural speech, he called for a spirit of sacrifice and determination to deal with many of the current challenges. He focused on international affairs in his speech and also called on Americans to assume more obligations, make a greater sacrifice. Throughout the speech is compressed into 52 sentences, less than 1400 words, because Kennedy's wonderful speech won the applause. Kennedy had great powers of utterance. This is a very successful speech. Kennedy's inaugural address and the First inaugural address of Franklin Roosevelt are known as the 20th century's most memorable two US presidential inaugural addresses. Total 1355 word speech becomes as incentive-based language
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The first example: He said “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 be never employed.” He uses "beyond doubt" two times in this sentence. It showed the repeated use of rhetorical methods. When he repeated it strongly, his effectively strengthen the semantics, more a sense of rhythm. He made this speech more momentum, while deepening the audience's impression. The second example, he said “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…”. This paragraph use of parallelism of rhetoric and the parallelism and repetition fusion use, it has stressed the article, and make the sentence appear neat and not the same, well-proportioned but not rigid. Actually, this speech makes me feel really inspired. It is very impressive because like this inspiring speeches are rare. The third example he said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” became a famous saying. This sentence not only catchy American people, its influence has spread from the United States, most of the population of the world through a variety of different translated versions, read or heard these words. When Kennedy said this sentence in an emphatic tone that really can inspired people, infected people, but also deeply affected
The first example: He said “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 be never employed.” He uses "beyond doubt" two times in this sentence. It showed the repeated use of rhetorical methods. When he repeated it strongly, his effectively strengthen the semantics, more a sense of rhythm. He made this speech more momentum, while deepening the audience's impression. The second example, he said “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…”. This paragraph use of parallelism of rhetoric and the parallelism and repetition fusion use, it has stressed the article, and make the sentence appear neat and not the same, well-proportioned but not rigid. Actually, this speech makes me feel really inspired. It is very impressive because like this inspiring speeches are rare. The third example he said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” became a famous saying. This sentence not only catchy American people, its influence has spread from the United States, most of the population of the world through a variety of different translated versions, read or heard these words. When Kennedy said this sentence in an emphatic tone that really can inspired people, infected people, but also deeply affected