Rhetorical Devices In Thomas Jefferson's Address

Jefferson’s address applies the principles of the founding Americans to the occasion of a presidential election. It shows those basic principles in a sketch of the limited government. He was very big on loyalty to the Constitution and its principles. Kennedy spoke very broad on liberty, peace and democratic freedoms, and addresses his words to both Americans and people abroad. A big theme to his speech was the role of the United States as a world leader in making the liberties to other regions and countries go further on. Kennedy emphasized the desire for peace such as calling for Soviet cooperation to end the threat of war and nuclear destruction. At the same time he was underscoring U.S. intentions to lead and work from a strengthening …show more content…
Jefferson’s tone in the beginning of his speech starts off thankful and appreciative. Towards the middle of the address he sounds more empowering and confident on what he will accomplish. Coming down around the end he still sounds empowering but also unifying and making the country feel as one. Throughout the whole address he sounded angry and frustrated in one paragraph. In Kennedy's speech he uses tone words such as freedom, celebration, and victory to draw an illusion into the people’s mind. These words have an uplifting effect towards the reader and make the whole passage sound positive. Grateful thanks, beloved, and equal are tone words used in Jefferson's address to create a flow of positive words throughout the whole …show more content…
In Jefferson's speech he states “A rising nation spread over a wide and fruitful land”. That quote indicates nation literally spreading over a land which is only something a human can do. What he really means is that America is a new country with nothing but prosperity for the future, and there is much room to grow together as a new and free nation. When using the device of personification he is over exaggerating the expectations everyone has for in-human objects. John F. Kennedy says “each generation of americans has to be summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty”. He is giving the human quality of summoning to a generation (animation). Kennedy also states “now the trumpet summons us again.” This means he is giving the the trumpet human characteristics to summon. This is that call to action, that even though he wants peace, war might have to be an option with all of the communist outbreaks and he is informing the American people that if the horn does call for the people again, then they will have to fight together. When using personification in a speech it creates a sense of imagination into the author's mind and into the